{"id":1086,"date":"2008-10-07T05:20:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T10:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2008-10-07T05:20:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T10:20:29","slug":"avoiding-the-fail-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/07\/avoiding-the-fail-whale","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding the fail whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catchy title? Its a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/scalability\">webminar<\/a> hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/\">Robert Scoble<\/a>, with panel members like <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a> (WordPress &#8211; their extensive use of PHP, MySQL and more, and scalable even for wordpress.com), Paul Bucheit (FriendFeed, creator of GMail) and Nat Brown (iLike, a pretty popular Facebook application), you&#8217;d be silly not to miss it.<\/p>\n<p>Its all about building a scalable server environment that grows with your traffic (virtually overnight, in some cases). 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Its a webminar hosted by Robert Scoble, with panel members like Matt Mullenweg (WordPress &#8211; their extensive use of PHP, MySQL and more, and scalable even for wordpress.com), Paul Bucheit (FriendFeed, creator of GMail) and Nat Brown (iLike, a pretty popular Facebook application), you&#8217;d be silly not to miss it. 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