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Re:How do you scale your web application? by LostInTheWoods on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @11:37AM (#770657)
Scaling on the cheap:

1. Host all your static files (images,css,js) on Google App Engine

2. Avoid hitting your database. Cache everything possible.

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Re:How do you scale your web application? by mmt on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @02:48PM (#771149)
Taken to its logical extreme, the cache becomes "your database," in which case you didn't need, for example, an RDBMS in the first place.
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