High Scalability – High Scalability – MocoSpace Architecture – 3 Billion Mobile Page Views a Month.
I love these posts. Its super handy to see what others in what I’ve taken to calling the “middle class” of websites are doing.
Couple thoughts. Their pageview to unique visitor ratio is waaaaay wide. I guess thats a byproduct of small micro-pages for mobile devices and the difficulty in user tracking on mobile. I like that they clearly weren’t afraid to build where they thought they should and buy where they thought they should. A mix of free/open-source stuff and of ‘enterprise’-vendor stuff shows a clear results-over-religion vibe. They’ve also got the developers-pushing-live/you-break-it-you-own-it thing figured out, which is key to how they get away with 1 sysadmin with all that workload.