Anyone starting or running a dating site should listen to this Venture Hacks podcast How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year. The dating industry growth hype due to the recession is leading many people to start dating sites. 98% of these companies are going to fail if they don’t pay attention to the details in the podcast and understand what they are getting themselves into.
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IMVU do some truly impressive engineering. They deploy code 50 times a day:
http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/
When they commit code, it’s live on the website 9 minutes later. Scary stuff! It wouldn’t be possible without the amazing monitoring and automated push/rollback framework they have in place.
50 site updates a day is insane and Selenium looks remarkable. I like your blog, too.