A swing and a miss from "typicalprog". The author is talking about design patterns that scale. RDBMS certainly can scale, but only to a point at which time, you're looking at very expensive and non-profitable redesign. If you can take some of the learning pain from highly-available and extremely busy websites and systems, apply that past experience to your own designs, you're in a better position.
A swing and a miss from "typicalprog". The author is talking about design patterns that scale. RDBMS certainly can scale, but only to a point at which time, you're looking at very expensive and non-profitable redesign. If you can take some of the learning pain from highly-available and extremely busy websites and systems, apply that past experience to your own designs, you're in a better position.