sharding

http://highscalability.com/unorthodox-approach-database-design-coming-shard



MDV & BASES presents:



"How to Scale a Startup Successfully: A Discussion with Two Silicon

Valley Startup CTOs"



Date: Wednesday, October 3

Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Location: David Packard Electrical Engineering Auditorium,

Stanford University



Food and drinks provided following the talks!



Discussion topics:



1) Scaling to the Masses - How hi5 built an information architecture

to support millions of users



Speaker: Akash Garg, CTO and Co-Founder, hi5 Networks

(http://www.hi5.com)



Come hear about hi5's evolution and the tools and techniques that

have successfully allowed them to support the needs of 70 million

users. Akash will also discuss challenges faced and lessons learned

as hi5 scaled over the past 4 years.



2) Building scalable web services with practical tools



Speaker: Nathan Schmidt, CTO of PBwiki (http://www.pbwiki.com)



PBwiki has exploited Free and Open Source tools to build out a

scalable, performant infrastructure with very small capital

investment. The last few years have seen a dramatic change in core

pieces available to system architects, and we'll talk about some of

the practical approaches to horizontal scalability, availability and

performance for today's nimble web startup.