Comments on: Facebook Applications that I am working on (nearly 2 million users and growing fast!)

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:19:56 +0000

Facebook is rocketing even till now. It’s great application.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:12:31 +0000

Ah. There’s a bunch of blog posts tagged with FacebookCampToronto if you’re interested. The couple of presentations by the Facebook staff were interesting, but anything actually technical was really basic and slow – you didn’t miss much there.

By: Gary King

Gary King — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:30:27 +0000

Tony no unfortunately I couldn’t make it.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:51:00 +0000

@Paul – fun fact: FBML has if-logic tags, making it possible for Facebook to cache a “dynamic” static pages.

@Gary – did you come out to the FacebookCamp in Toronto on Tuesday?

By: Gary King

Gary King — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:15:56 +0000

Paul, anything on the profile is cached by Facebook. It’s that way so that a profile never hangs on load; therefore, our pageviews and servers are not affected by user profiles.

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:59:43 +0000

Interesting.. Does the server get one hit per profile view? Or is the profile part cached by facebook until you push to their server?

Anyway, sounds like fun, keep up the interesting posts.

By: Gary King

Gary King — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:24:07 +0000

Paul, scaling is a huge issue and we’re basically tackling that every day. We’ve been moving between a few hosts right now, finding the one with the best fit

By: Ian from www.thenewsroom.com

Ian from www.thenewsroom.com — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:53:12 +0000

Here’s a monetization option for you…http://apps.facebook.com/thenewsroom

By: Paul Butler

Paul Butler — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:10:26 +0000

Congrats on all the users, it must be thrilling to have so many users and such fast growth. Did you have much difficulty scaling? Who are you hosting with?

By: Michael Fagan

Michael Fagan — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:16:06 +0000

craziness