mixi Delivers Massive Scale-out with MySQL

mixi is the largest Social Networking Site (SNS) in Japan. Members can create diaries, share photos, post message, and participate in discussions. According to Alexa Traffic Rankings, mixi is ranked in the Top 30 of the most trafficked web sites in the world. mixi attributes its success largely to the site's ease-of-use and the ability to deliver a high-performance, scalable solution to meet the demands of its exponentially growing user base. Within the first 2 months of launching the site, mixi had 10,000 users and 600,000 page views/day. mixi quickly realized just how popular their service would be. They focused on creating an architecture to cost-effectively scale-out their infrastructure.

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