Do you have doubts about whether it would work? Seems fairly 
straightforward.

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 3:59:29 PM UTC-5, CDA wrote:
>
>
> Below is an excerpt about horizontal scaling from Chapter 13 in the book. 
> Has any one successfully implemented this using web2py?
>
> It is also possible to connect to different databases depending on the 
> requested action or controller. In a master-slave database configuration, 
> *some* *action performs only a read* and *some performs both read/write*. 
> The former can safely connect to a slave db server, while the latter should 
> connect to a master. So you can do:
>
>
> 1 
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
>
> if request.function in read_only_actions:
>    db = DAL(sample(['mysql://...1','mysql://...2','mysql://...3'], 3))elif 
> request.action in read_only_actions:
>    db = DAL(shuffle(['mysql://...1','mysql://...2','mysql://...3']))else:
>    db = DAL(sample(['mysql://...3','mysql://...4','mysql://...5'], 3))
>
>
> where 1,2,3 are slaves and 3,4,5 are masters.
>

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