Re: [seam-dev] Friendly documentation

Sorry mate, I target my docs to folks with a sense of humor, who don't take all this techno-religious-war crap too seriously. On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Sebastian Hennebrueder <usenet(a)laliluna.de&gt; 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 > > ------- > 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. .... > > ------------- > 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. > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev > -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://hibernate.org http://jboss.com/products/seam http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev