How do you scale your web application?

Re:How do you scale your web application? by zackola on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @08:53AM (#770314)

Ah caching, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

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Re:How do you scale your web application? by jsonscripter on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @10:09AM (#770461)

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

-Phil Karlton

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Re:How do you scale your web application? by lrajlich on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @04:04PM (#771351)

Not all caches have the cache invalidation problem that Karlton is referring to (memcache doesn't). He was talking about invalidation of multiple copies of an object in a cache.

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Re:How do you scale your web application? by jsonscripter on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @02:16PM (#773345)

Which is the exact kind of problem you have when scaling.

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