That's Gavin's style. It tends to provoke reactions and discussions
which is what you want on such a subject. Note that your
reformulation mention lightweight, this is not the debate really.
On Feb 20, 2008, at 07:14, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote:
Hello,
in chapter 19 (caching) of the seam documentation, there is the
following paragraph. In my opinion, it is not at all polite as we
call them silly, use expressions like 'will try to tell you' and so
on.
Dealing with other people in that way does not express better
technology or better knowledge. I would interprete it as being
snobbish, subjectiv and find that it is not very much convincing.
Though I know that the core argument is in fact correct.
May be it is just me being to sensible, but what is your opinion on
this.
Best Regards
Sebastian Hennebrueder
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In almost all enterprise applications, the database is the primary
bottleneck, and the least scalable tier of the
runtime environment. People from a PHP/Ruby environment will try to
tell you that so-called "shared nothing"
architectures scale well. While that may be literally true, I don't
know of many interesting multi-user applica-
tions which can be implemented with no sharing of resources between
different nodes of the cluster. What these
silly people are really thinking of is a "share nothing except for
the database" architecture. ....
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alternative formulation:
In almost all enterprise applications, the database is the primary
bottleneck, and the least scalable tier of the runtime environment.
People from a PHP/Ruby environment state that their lightweigth
architecture - which is not sharing resources - scales well. We do
not agree here. A PHP/Ruby will share the database which is in
large scale application normally already the bottleneck.
Lightweight can be fast in smaller applications but is not scalable.
This chapter explains how Seam uses caching to provide a
architecture which is fast and scalable at the same time.
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