Re: PHP's vision

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, John Lim wrote: > Say you are Amazon or some similar company and has a fancy cluster for order > processing. As orders come in, the cluster cannot handle the peak load, so > we need to queue the orders using some such technology until the cluster can > process them. These queues are actually mini-databases as they often support > saving to disk, replication, commit-rollback etc. without the overhead of > relational databases (though you can implement it with relational db > technology). Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but this queing idea seems rather silly. If the cluster is unable to handle the load, how do you expect your webserver to write a temp database? This kind of idea would have to be handled/implemented at a switch or router level I'd think, and thats REALLY not where PHP is :) >---------------------------------------------------------------< Dan Kalowsky "The record shows, I took the blows. http://www.deadmime.org/~dank And did it my way." dank@nospam-deadmime.org - "My Way", Frank Sinatra kalowsky@nospam-php.net