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Re: What does Vignette do? Was Re: Today's scriptingNews Outline

Author:Stephen Judd
Posted:12/13/1999; 6:21:02 PM
Topic:Today's scriptingNews Outline
Msg #:13610 (In response to 13609)
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I should have said: Story Server allows you to create a sophisticated caching strategy. You still have to figure out what it is.

Perhaps foodtv.com tried to leave more stuff uncached than was wise; perhaps they underestimated the number of open database connections they would need; perhaps their database structure is overly complex so that typical queries take too long... Tuning seems to be an important part of a typical Story Server implementation. It's that scary engineering big iron thing again.

My number one guess is that the foodtv site emphasises user searching. Lots and lots of concurrent full-text searches will hit any RDBMS hard. Suddenly things that worked great when you were developing, when you stress-tested, fall over under load.

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