In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: >> >> So what? I think you're missing the real point of the article: using >> LAMP scales *DOWN* in a way that enterprise systems don't. Getting your >> first prototype up and running is far more important than sheer >> scalability, > >There comes a day when your first prototype can no longer handle the >traffic. The question then is how do you deal with that.
Then you scale with hardware or do profiling and rewrite chunks, whichever costs less FOR THE BUSINESS. >> and LAMP does have many mechanisms to obtain scalability when it's >> needed. > >LAMP seems to have no solution other than scaling (i.e. blowing more >money on hardware and colo space). One really gets the impression >that a more thoughtful design could handle the traffic without needing >to scale the hardware. Is there some reason you keep repeating yourself without actually paying attention to other people? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx prgrmmng. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
