…about that over the next coming days, because there are huge platforms these days, everything from Pinterest to Twitter, to Google, to the App Store, that give you ready access to hundreds of millions of users, billions of users, many of whom have credit cards and will actually pay money for things. [ Patrick notes : I'm stealing this from 500 Startups' investment thesis, but I think it is equally applicable regardless of whether one is doing a high-growth startup or a one-man …
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Pinterest has been riding an exponential growth curve, doubling every month and half. They've gone from 0 to 10s of billions of page views a month in two years, from 2 founders and one engineer to over 40 engineers, from one little MySQL server to 180 Web Engines, 240 API Engines, 88 MySQL DBs (cc2.8xlarge) + 1 slave each, 110 Redis Instances, and 200 Memcache Instances.
Stunning growth. So what's Pinterest's story? To tell their story we have our bards, Pinterest…
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…Facebook, Twitter, Google, Box, Esty, Pinterest, Tumblr, NING.com... and ask them any question and actually get an answer. You can even catch interesting rumors... and spread some of your own. Basically just be part of the MySQL crowd and really feel the great vibe (especially after a few drinks during the Community Networking Reception) .
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…back to black hole portal type sites, where attention enters and never escapes the event horizon, Pinterest thinks we are also trending back to human curated content , with humans doing the indexing. Or is that just what the machines want them to think?
Complexity accretes. Rails, You Have Turned into Java. Congratulations! Which is whey every few years we need to all get naked, have a party, declare a Jubilee, and start over again, hopefully a little wiser.
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