"Jeff also relayed an interesting philosophy from Mark Zuckerberg: 'Work fast and don’t be afraid to break things.' Overall, the idea to avoid working cautiously the entire year, delivering rock-solid code, but not much of it. A corollary: if you take the entire site down, it’s not the end of your career."
wow. they have no (ie random) partitioning - it's just brute force. i hope their "Graph-based caching and storage systems" is coming along... :o)
[edit: although, given the exponential growth they give and the factor of 4 headroom they have left, they're going to top out in about 1.5 years anyway]
Who is "They" in this case? Both a read and a write could be a "request", so I am having some trouble with the ambiguity of your last sentence. Thanks!
"Jeff also relayed an interesting philosophy from Mark Zuckerberg: 'Work fast and don’t be afraid to break things.' Overall, the idea to avoid working cautiously the entire year, delivering rock-solid code, but not much of it. A corollary: if you take the entire site down, it’s not the end of your career."