On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 08:37 -0400, Joe Cascio, Jr. wrote:
> Evan, just curious..
> Your reply reminds me of a comment that was made by the Twitter folks
> about their performance and scalability issues. They said something to
> the effect that a lot of their issues were caused by Twitter being
> originally built as a content-management system and not a messaging
> system.
> How do you see Laconica avoiding this same problem?

OWWWWWWWWWW.

Are you really trying to make a specialty out of asking me long,
difficult questions that require a LOT of thought on my part?

Short answer: I intend to move us to messaging-style system over the
next few months. Instead of storing messages once and showing them in
different ways based on who needs them, we'll have "inboxes" for each
user (maybe more than one) in which copies of each appropriate message
goes.

I expect that those inboxes will be implemented on a cloud-style
database system, like CloudDB or Hypertable, rather than on an RDBMS
like MySQL or PostgreSQL. Obviously that would be optional, and people
should still be able to roll out on commodity PHP/MySQL webhosting.

-Evan

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