Hi!
On Sat, 08 May 2004 04:05:14 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
I don't know any details about Akamai (which is what Alex was specifically talking about), but I believe it's some sort of distributed caching system. Our biggest problems are on the database and apache servers that do the work of dynamic page generation; more front-end caches would be less helpful.
I don't know how they work, but I guess they have to have some mechanism for the feedback, too. A distributed cache for reading would probably be helpfull already, and in the long term it might make sense to distribute the databases, too. After all, why should chinese and arabian (for example) entries have to cross an ocean to get edited, those WPs are probably read there a lot more than in America or Europe, too.
On the other hand, these are very long-term considerations; right now we should concentrate on getting the hardware running we have and/or will get soon.
Greetings from Cologne Alex