The Little Engine(s) That Could: Scaling Online Social Networks

Google Tech Talk (see below) June 17, 2010 Presented by Josep M. Pujol. ABSTRACT The difficulty of partitioning social graphs has introduced new system design challenges for scaling of Online Social Networks (OSNs). Vertical scaling by resorting to full replication can be a costly proposition. Scaling horizontally by partitioning and distributing data among multiple servers [...]