Session

Trade Me: 0-70 million pages in 0.34 Gigaseconds

Trade Me is New Zealand's biggest website, with over a 1.7 million items for sale and serving over 70 million pages on a busy day. Hear about their platform from the webs through to the database and how they've handled their growth to 70 million pages a day. Matt van Deventer (Head of Infrastructure) and David Curlewis (Head of Database) will share some of the lessons they've learnt along the way, strategies for keeping ahead of their growth and talk about what happens when things go wrong.