“As to the rest of the wannabees, it really is true that if you haven’t
done it, that is: been intimately involved growing a social web app
from prototype to Internet-scale on a UNIX stack, then you really don’t
know shit. (I know more than my fair share of people that have, and I
didn’t see any of them posting armchair bs on the comments).”

—Upcoming co-founder Leonard Lin, writing about scaling twitter and the general brouhahaha.

Susan sez: Check out these links as well.

• joestump.net » Blog Archive » It’s not the language stupid

• I’m Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass – Ted Dziuba
  

• random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition
  

• Liminal Existence: Scalability
  

• Scaling Twitter » SlideShare

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