The story of one million checkboxes and how it managed to scale 650 million checks
A project that started as a joke has gone viral: Eieio launched "One Million Checkboxes" (OMCB), a site with one million interactive checkboxes. Within hours, thousands of users had sent the servers into meltdown, thoroughly testing the initial architecture. As traffic increased, several technical problems emerged, but Eieio responded with quick and efficient solutions: more