Re: [Pbwebgui-development] quick temperature check

[Jay R. A. <jr...@ba...>]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 11:52:46AM -0500, JT Smith wrote:
> The reason I can do this from an application environment is 2 fold.
>
> 1) The interval that the slaves use to update from the master is
> determined largely by the configuration of the slaves to their master.
>
> 2) As a developer, you control whether your app is reading directly
> from the master or from the slave, and presumably you know what your
> app needs to do to work properly.

True.

>  From a content viewing point of view, yes the data can be out of date
> for a little bit, but that's the whole purpose of caching in a content
> environment. Let the data go out of date for a little bit in order to
> not stress out the machine. If you're in an environment where cachable
> reads need to not be cached, then instead of buying 2 small database
> servers and doing replication, buy one motherhog database server and
> serve all requests from there.

True, but not always practical.  In my view, replication is the
solution for a) people whose needs exceed one motherhog server (that's
a cool adjective; can I steal it? :-) and b) people who want physical
distribution to avoid disaster outages.

> I'm not trying to be a prick, shun anyone's ideas, or anything else
> dickheadish. It's just that:
>
> 1) This isn't an easy problem to solve in any way that doesn't cause
> other problems.

You're correct, it's not.

> and
>
> 2) I don't think that the amount of time required to solve this
> particular problem is a good investment given that it's not even a
> problem yet.

Not at the moment... but it's good to think about the final target
market at design time.

Like David, I'm not a target customer for some time... just a hacker,
kibitzing.  ;-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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