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I was in charge of scaling Dropbox for a while, from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. For most of that time we had one to three people working on the backend. Here are some suggestions on scaling, particularly in a resource-constrained, fast-growing environment that can’t always afford to do things “the right way” (i.e., any real-world engineering project ;-). If people find this useful, I’ll try to come up with more tips and write a part 2.
One technique we repeatedly used was creating artificial extra load in the live site. For example, we would do a lot more memcached reads than necessary. Then when memcached broke, we could quickly
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