> For example how would you guys approach a project where you needed to create > a site like a myspace.com or similar with 0 current users but could surpass > 1 million users in 1 month then 100 million in 1 year.
Here's how ebay handle these sort of numbers: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/dan-pritchett-ebay-architecture They do some unexpected (to me) things to manage their data, with no transactions and no referential integrity in the db in order to permit scale across multiple dbs. - Chris _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
