Update: ------- -- PowerDNS as authoritative server is almost laughably easy. They have a pipe backend and example which would take just a few minutes to rewo

Update: ------- -- PowerDNS as authoritative server is almost laughably easy. They have a pipe backend and example which would take just a few minutes to rework in python to pull records from CouchDB. A few minutes more and it could check memcached to see which server is loaded and re-order results appropriately. Geo wouldn't even be that hard to add. -- Twisted and Tornado might work to replace node.js. It is kinda shocking how many people are investing in node.js, though. -- If anyone can recommend a caching proxy server that will also work as a sort of template engine and auth engine in front of couchDB, that would be great. I can write this in any number of tools, but if it already exists, great. Remember, it needs to take multiple CouchDB shows/lists and run them thru a template to produce a final resulting html page. -- CouchDB caches the trees in memory so can quickly tell me if the etag is different, but for commonly used data, I do want to cache it to save time on disk seeks given how dramatic the latency of disks are vs. memory. But only for the most commonly used things. -- as I originally mentioned, I don't want to reinvent the wheel, I'd rather rent wheels by the hour. Unfortunately, none of the app hosting options offer the kind of wheels I need. The app we're building will involve some heavy lifting, in the 10s of gigabytes of data a day range, with a fair bit of custom processing, and even app engine doesn't provide the kind of indexing we really need (But that CouchDB does well, and incrementally.) -- I think this might work as an open source project, an open stack for people to use and build upon.