Learning from Livejournal.com
Having just read a presentation by one of the key developers at livejournal.com, about how they scaled up their technology as their userbase rocketed, I’m thinking about this site.
Obviously not in a sense of it having anywhere NEAR as much traffic, but there’s certainly things I can do to improve performance.
Particularly - and this is bad - there is no server-side caching, at least on the dynamic pages. Well, I knocked it up in a weekend so it’s not fully there yet!