The engineering team at Reddit manages 250M pageviews per engineer. That has to be some kind of record. Has any other site ever hit the Alexa 100 with only 4 engineers?
Kudos.
Kudos.
30 employees and 20 billion pageviews/month. Not clear how many of those people are engineers.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet
pg makes reference to it in this essay http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
Yes, 1 billion page views is a relatively serious load, technically. But there's not much difference between a small team building the software to handle it and a huge enterprise department doing the same.
In fact, the small team will often produce better results. When given enough motivation, money and coffee.
I can't speak for the taste and discernment of the people who visited that site 500M times, though.