Lessons Learned Scaling Reddit

7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month.

Steve Huffman, co-founder of social news site Reddit, gave an excellent presentation (slides, transcript) on the lessons he learned while building and growing Reddit to 7.5 million users per month, 270 million page views per month, and 20+ database servers.

High Scalability produced an excellent summary from the presentation.