Title: Not recommended... and here's why!
Product review: Cal Henderson writes what many call the definitive book on scaling websites... but unfortunately that's all it is, a book. Cal and his buddy Stewart Barfield (of Flickr fame) tried to use his scalability methods on a recently shut down flash game called "Glitch" from the company Tiny Speck. It was closed on December the 9th because it simply couldn't sustain more than 50 players in the same zone at the same time without unbearable lag for everyone involved. Quite the shame that he couldn't solve the scalability issues within his own company's game.Avoid this book because when it really counts, Cal Henderson's methods and techniques simply don't work in a real world situation.
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