(Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things like patron registration, though it still doesn't index ebooks.)
So would you say they are just not web scale yet?!
They seem to be serving millions of books per month on a cheap VM. For once a smaller website didn't crash upon hitting the front page, so I don't really see any problems here.
God, I loved this article. I kept nodding to the point of almost exclaiming agreement out loud.
It’s rare to see some good sense in this industry, which is almost completely fashion and hype/novelty driven, despite supposedly being a technical field.
(Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things like patron registration, though it still doesn't index ebooks.)