From http://www.sxsw.com/node/1609
Serious server-side engineers will talk about how they were able to get around some of the tricky ins and outs of building a fast, reliable, scalable synchronous Web application. Hear about how not to fail at scalability and about the lessons they learned and the mistakes they made that might help you scale your own synchronous application.
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