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
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