[Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Relocation Announcement

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Mon Sep 24 19:20:50 UTC 2007


> >> And that's just one HTTP request. It would be way worse if we sent all
> >> the very many DB/memcached/DNS/etc lookups necessary to build a single
> >> wiki page over the atlantic...
>
> > If you didn't pipeline them.  But why in the world would you do that?
>
> Because of the "update everywhere problem". Data of which multiple
> copies exist either needs all copies updated atomically (impractical due
> to the latency we were talking about) or needs to synced/merged later,
> with all the fun conflict resolution problems you will get.
>
I can't figure out what your response has to do with the question.
What is it we're talking about, again?



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