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		bensummers on Aug 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do you scale your web application? Design it well in the first place! Here's something I recently wrote about speed and web apps: http://bens.me.uk/2009/fast-web-applications

jackowayed on Aug 18, 2009 [–]

Designing it well doesn't mean that you won't have to scale eventually (unless you stop growing.)

bensummers on Aug 18, 2009 | [–]

Agreed, but not doing silly things is a pretty good start to the process of scaling.

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