Re: scalability

Faisal N Jawdat
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:21:11 -0000

On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:09 PM,
johntmarino-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> could ror support a service on the scale of myspace? i''ve been
reading
> about problems with the types of databses that ruby can work with?

Define "support".  No technology you can pick up off the shelf will
let you _run_ a service on the scale of MySpace (or Yahoo, or eBay,
or Amazon, or Google, etc.).  If you can build something up to that
level you get to figure out how to run it.

On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Phlip wrote:
> Word on the street is Google uses LAMP, including the MySQL. I
> don''t know how they cluster their MySQL databases, or if they
> simply write everything to work with a distributed set of databases.

Last I heard, Google was migrating to BigTable for public facing
apps.  MapReduce also lets them run (relatively) slow processes
quickly if the code can be broken out enough to throw it at a large
number of servers.

-faisal