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Re:What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? Wha... by nostrademons on Thursday April 19, 2007 @11:01AM (#14624)
Did it ever need to scale beyond one server?
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Re:What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? Wha... by pg on Thursday April 19, 2007 @11:24AM (#14629)
Yes, but we did that by just assigning a user (merchant) a specific server, to which they were redirected when they logged in to edit their store, view stats, or retrieve orders.

The problem was completely parallelizable; stores didn't interact.

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Re:What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? Wha... by papersmith on Thursday April 19, 2007 @01:48PM (#14695)
I think it's even less of a problem now a days. With cheap 64bit hardware, you can have a humongous virtual memory space, so you can go quite far with each hardware you add.
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Re:What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? Wha... by jkush on Thursday April 19, 2007 @11:28AM (#14631)
Makes such perfect sense too.
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