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Yes, that's exactly my point. This article makes it sound like you need a distributed system at almost any level of scale. Yet the reality is, you only need one
by apeace 9y ago
Yes, that's exactly my point. This article makes it sound like you need a distributed system at almost any level of scale. Yet the reality is, you only need one of you are doing tons of writes. Most systems are read-heavy, which is why most people scale reads horizontally instead of using a distributed system.
- mazerackham 9y agoMore or less agree with your point, just wanted to point out that scaling reads horizontally usually means adding a distributed quality to your system, and not understanding how that impacts the system can have bad side effects
- flukus 9y agoWhere do you draw the line of where a horizontally scalable system begins? Scaling reads might only involve a caching server, but most of us probably wouldn't consider an app server with a cache to be distributed.