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Large Scale Web Apps Built on Open Source

Posted by michael on from the running-out-of-south-park-characters dept.

prostoalex writes "Brad Fitzpatrick presented at OSCON with on overview of his little project. Interesting facts about the evolution of the Livejournal back-end architecture."

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  1. There are some problems with this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They may not know this, but when using multiple servers in a farm...

    Slaves upon slaves doesn't scale well...it only spreads reads and eventually... databases will be consumed by writing

    and not to mention...Database master is point of failure and Reparenting slaves on master failure tricky at best - (without downtime)

    Spreading Writes
    Our database machines already did RAID
    We did backups
    So why put user data on 6+ slave machines?
    (~12+ disks)
    - overkill redundancy
    - wasting time writing everywhere

  2. Re:.sxi format? by introverted · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Anyone know what that document format is since it's roughly half the size of the pdf?

    A quick Google search says it's a StarOffice "Impress" presentation file. (Open Source answer to Power Point?)

  3. Re:Salesforce.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    not quite https://www.salesforce.com/login.jsp

  4. Re:Typical Livejournal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You're a +5 funny in my book.

  5. Oooh, handwaving. by chromatic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I see your link to Java.net (running on mod_perl, by the way). Perhaps you like J2EE? The original goal of Java (err, Oak) was to program embedded devices. What does that have to do with anything?

    I've come to the conclusion that people who say things like "____ doesn't scale" are merely engaging in vigorous and pedantic platform self-congratulation.

    Yes, that's a euphemism.

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