Thanks Adam, Thats a good point. I suppose we could scale this by adding more nodes in the data centre.
> Hi Niall, I think the key part is that with this topology your central > servers are going to need to support a sustained throughput of 20,000 > reads/second in order to distribute the updates to all 2,000 servers. > Granted, each read is repeated 2,000 times, so you'll mostly be reading > from page cache, but a cached read from CouchDB is not nearly as cheap as > reading from e.g. Varnish. > > Adam
