Are you building a large scale consumer web service? Below are some helpful talks from companies that have done so successfully, using approaches including memory caching, replication, feature based sharding, and horizontal (user) sharding.

Nat Brown, iLike’s CTO, spoke at the Google I/O conference on scaling and analytics techniques , with a particular focus on OpenSocial.

Saran Chari, CTO and co-founder of Flixster, has an overview of the data scaling techniques used at Flixster