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Avery nice read for the weekend - Postmortem of a 2005 Flickr Outage Modernized for Today.

It’s cool because it’s not just a postmortem from a well-known, but this piece also contains some history! Trust me, you will like the root cause of this one ;)

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Engineering Thoughts Postmortem of a 2005 Flickr Outage Modernized for Today Review of Flickr Architecture Before we delve into the Postmortem let’s review the details of the database architecture and Flickr’s overall Architecture at that time. Flickr at that time was a PHP shop, running PHP 4, using Smarty as its template Engine…
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