Tom Kleinpeter was one of the founders of Foldershare (acquired by Microsoft in 2006) and before that he was a part of the original team at Audiogalaxy. I worked with Tom while he was at Microsoft working on Mesh. Tom recently decided to take some time off, to relax, be a father, and it looks like he’s also finding time to put write up some of his experiences. I particularly like the Audiogalaxy Chronicles where he writes up his experiences with Audiogalaxy which grew like only successful startup can shooting to 80 million page views a day from 35 million unique users.
I found this post particularly interesting where Tom describes scaling the Audiogalaxy design and some of the challenges they had in scaling to 80 million page views a day: http://www.spiteful.com/2008/02/27/scaling-audiogalaxy-to-80-million-daily-page-views/.
Read them all: http://www.spiteful.com/the-audiogalaxy-chronicles/.
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