Re:Poll: Pythonic startups: what web framework do you use?
by zepolen on Thursday March 19, 2009 @03:57PM
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Scaling = Increasing capacity indefinitely by adding more nodes.
Caching is not scaling because by definition, it depends on a backend to provide it data.
If the backend is a database then sure, you can increase capacity by ~10x (assuming a ~90% cache hit rate), but after that, throwing more caching nodes at the problem won't do a thing if your database itself isn't scalable.
All a cache does is increase speed at decreased costs, but it is not in itself a scaling solution.
Caching is not scaling because by definition, it depends on a backend to provide it data.
If the backend is a database then sure, you can increase capacity by ~10x (assuming a ~90% cache hit rate), but after that, throwing more caching nodes at the problem won't do a thing if your database itself isn't scalable.
All a cache does is increase speed at decreased costs, but it is not in itself a scaling solution.