What happens when a site goes viral and more than doubles it user base every month? It breaks of course. Here's how popular photo-based social network Pinterest, handled the problem, and a few tips from Pinterest engineers on how others might avoid the same sort of trouble.
Marty Weiner and Yashh Nelapati of Pinterest shared the lessons from that experience on Thursday at the Surge Conference in Baltimore, Md., with most of the tips being about how the site has scaled its MySQL database.
