Flickr engineers do it offline
Here’s a very interesting post on how Flickr engineers handle the scaling challenges of this well-known photo website: using queues to run slow things offline.
Here’s an excerpt:
“It seems that using queuing systems in web apps is the new hottness . While the basic idea itself certainly isn’t new, its application to modern, large, scalable sites seems to be. At the very least, it’s something that deserves talking about — so here’s how Flickr does it, to the tune of 11 million tasks a day.”
Check the full article out.
