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Originally Posted by CamChameleon
When you have grown so fast so quickly I guess even the simplest of things are not that easy to implement. I don't really use facebook but I have a few addicted friends that do. I don't think anyone can predict what would happen if the site was down for long periods of time as it has grown to be such a large part of peoples lives!
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That's the exact reason why everything should be built on top of a RESTful API ;)
That way your API end points can all grow as needed, independently, and be a separate system... If you build you own site on top of the API then you know the API is functioning as intended as well and you learn its limitations and what direction it needs to grow at the same time :P
Plus there's the whole separate system portion talking about the code base where you can say... hey you know, this specific section does not scale well. Let's swap to C++ and NoSQL for this service... and you don't have to rework your entire code base... or in their case, 7 fucking code bases, hahahah.