On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:50:16 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > I understood the Twisted suggestion as meaning avoiding database > traffic by keeping both user and server state resident in the > application. Yes, if you use a database for that, you get multiple > app servers instead of a heavily loaded centralized one. But you now > have a heavily loaded centralized database server instead. You > haven't really solved your scaling problem, you've just moved it back > a layer.
True, but my understanding is that there are load balancing solutions for database servers too, so in this case moving the problem back one level actually can be progress. But I have no experience with this, so I have no idea how well it works. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
