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		nikcub on March 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? HipHop went live on FB last year. It didn't even go live everywhere at once. For some reason ppl think Mark created it on the 3rd day

gcr on March 26, 2011 [–]

It would be interesting to see how much load HipHop alleviated. I assumed it helped, but how much?

nikcub on March 27, 2011 | [–]

apparently it allowed them to not buy 70% of new servers at a time when they were growing crazy

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