Sunday, December 17, 2006
MySpace.com runs ASP.NET
Posted on Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:23:35 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  Comments [0] | 
Categories: .NET | ASP.NET | Team System
While we all know that Microsoft/Live/MSN etc are all running on ASP.NET, I was just reading a post on Paul Wilson's blog, which referred to an earlier post by Scott Guthrie (for those who don't know, he's General Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division) that says MySpace is also running on ASP.NET 2.0.

Here's a quote regarding scalability (circa March 2006)...

  • MySpace.com is now processing 1.5 Billion page views per day
  • MySpace.com handles 2.3 million concurrent users during the day
  • MySpace.com’s average server CPU utilization went from 85% to 27% after moving (from another technology) to ASP.NET 2.0

Since then, MySpace has apparently surpassed Yahoo! in daily page views. In the comments on Paul's post, we find more interesting news...

One other nice-to-know: They're actually developing with Visual Studio Team System on top of Team Foundation Server. Not a big deal, but when you consider their all-up continuous integration solution, it definitely speaks to the power and capability of the VSTS/TFS combo.

As a developer working with Microsoft tools, it's nice to hear about these sorts of things. Now if I could just cook up a site as popular as MySpace... ;-)

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