The secret to high-scalability: Make a no complexity site which does near no more than a static page, denormalize your DB because even at 2 queries max per requ

The secret to high-scalability: Make a no complexity site which does near no more than a static page, denormalize your DB because even at 2 queries max per request MySQL dries up because it can't do hash-joins, but damnit if you are going to switch to a real DB and implement caching on top of that blah blah blah. This was almost, but not quite, entirely different from trash advice.