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• Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  Sun, 02/17/2008 - 15:56 — Todd Hoff
  
  

  
  

  • Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App (837)

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  In a short three months Friends for Sale (think Hot-or-Not with a market economy) grew to become a top 10 Facebook application handling 200 gorgeous requests per second and a stunning 300 million page views a month. They did all this using Ruby on Rails, two part time developers, a cluster of a dozen machines, and a fairly standard architecture. How did Friends for Sale scale to sell all those beautiful people? And how much do you think your friends are worth on the open market?

  
  

  Site: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7019261521

• n a short three months Friends for Sale (think Hot-or-Not with a market economy) grew to become a top 10 Facebook application handling 200 gorgeous requests per second and a stunning 300 million page views a month. They did all this using Ruby on Rails, two part time developers, a cluster of a dozen machines, and a fairly standard architecture. How did Friends for Sale scale to sell all those beautiful people? And how much do you think your friends are worth on the op
• • 200 requests per second.
    
    
  • 5TB of bandwidth per month.
• Choose a good host if you
  
  plan on scaling, because migrating isn't fun.
• database
• two Rails developers
• a remote DBA