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Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com

Topics
.NET Framework,
Configuration Management,
.NET,
Enterprise Architecture,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability

In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talked about administering thousands of web servers from a system’s architect viewpoint. He mostly detailed the performance counter monitoring used by MySpace, the system profiler and the system administration site demoing the tools for the audience to see how it works.

Dan Farino On MySpace’s Architecture

Topics
.NET Framework,
Configuration Management,
.NET,
Enterprise Architecture,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability

In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.