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Hello all, Reading the site you can note that "1 Master for writes, N Slaves for reads" scheme is used offen. How is this implemented? Who decides where writes and reads go? Something in application level or specific database proxies, like Slony-I? Thanks.
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Could anyone make an overview of thesimsonstage.ea.com architecture, i.e. some stats, wich technology thay use, how they implement karaoke flash-based player, which media server they use, how many bandwidth does it need, etc. Any information will be helpful. Thanks.
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Our company offers a web service that is provided to users from several different hosting centers across the globe. The content and functionality at each of the servers is almost exactly the same, and we could have based them all in a single location. However, we chose to distribute the
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hello world, can you tell me how i can implement a load balancing of a web site running under iis - windows server 2003/08
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Hi, I will need to host abound 500-1000 websites, all of them use drupal, What I thought was, to make all of these websites point to a single setup of drupal and make them run from there. I thought of using different databases for each website.. Do you think it&
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Hi, if you were to design your own highly scalable website from scratch, what technologies would you use? Based on Web 2.0 popularity, LAMP seems to be high in the running. But would you tack on CakePHP? Drupal? or build your framework/CMS from scratch? What version of Linux
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I have some experience with a very large OLTP system that is 7+ TB in size and performs very well for 30K+ concurrent users. It is built using Intersystems Cache based on the very old but very scalable MUMPS platform. Why don't I see more discussions about archiectures
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I am trying to find a Linux FS that will allow me to replicate all writes synchronously to n nodes in a web server cluster, while keeping all reads local. It should not require specialized hardware.
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I see everyone talk about lamp stack is less than j2ee stack .i m newbie can anyone plz explain what is j2ee stack
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Hi, I saw an year ago that Netapp sold netcache to blu-coat, my site is a heavy NetCache user and we cached 83% of our site. We tested with Blue-coat and F5 WA and we are not getting same performce as NetCache. Any of you guys have the same issue?
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In The Architectures You've Always Wondered About track at the Qcon conference, Second Life, eBay, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Orbitz presented how they dealt with different aspects of their applications, such as scalability. There were quite a few lessons that I learned that day that I thought were worth
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Hi, An interesting post on Linkedin architecture: http://furiouspurpose.blogspot.com/2007/11/qcon-linkedin-architecture.html