quote from Peter: There are 2 things you should ask yourself. First is the scale comparable – the recipes from Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, are not good for like

quote from Peter: There are 2 things you should ask yourself. First is the scale comparable – the recipes from Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, are not good for like 99.9% of the applications because they are not even remotely close in size and so capacity requirements. Second if this “smart thing” was truly thought out architecture choice in beginning or it was the choice within code base constrains they had, and so you might not have. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/03/01/kiss-kiss-kiss/ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/03/01/kiss-kiss-kis...