On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Andrew Garrett
<andrew(a)epstone.net> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 5:11 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think what we really need here is a bad car
analogy. See, the
Internet is like a series of interstate highways going through
tunnels. And when we take a dump of a Wikipedia, it might be an
eighteen-wheeler or it might be a Matchbox car. MySQL is diesel,
Postgres is premium unleaded. And the radio only does AM, but the
music is better. Also, keep your tyre pressures up. I'm sure you can
see where I'm going with this.
This analogy is terrible. We all know that the internet is not a big truck.
Concurrency with trucks is easy, you send 2 trucks, will use different routes.
The backup system seems more like a train. That lock the rails for
other trains, while the slow big one is using it.
So what we need to do is install some sidings so the big train can
pull over and let the faster ones by.