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What’s the motive? You can blame it on this video: “Scaling Pinterest” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSk-SWLJ2g0). After watching that video I was left wondering if you could apply the ideas that worked in a Java background. So with that in mind, I've grabbed my favorite Java framework “Spring-Framework” and started coding away.

The software stack that I would be using for this project would consist of:

Java 7

Spring Framework 4

Tomcat 8 or Netty

Fineagle

Redis

PostqreSQL 9.2

PGBouncer or PGPool

Apache Zookeper

Half the technology stack is a new for me so this will be quite educational. In the frontend I had decided to go with Netty for the web server part since non-blocking IO would be important, but Tomcat 8 will support also non-blocking IO so Tomcat still an option, I guess it would come down to the resource consumption once a stable release of Tomcat 8 is out.

Also most likely would go with the service oriented design, using Twitter’s Thrift to communicate the services with the web servers.

And for the backend would use Redis for caching and messaging, and a pool of PostgreSQL instances sharded and using PGBouncer or PGPool to manage the instances.