This is part of a longer series on databases and how to make them scale. Author works at amazon on databases according to his blog. Quote about the series: Th

This is part of a longer series on databases and how to make them scale. Author works at amazon on databases according to his blog. Quote about the series: This is a bit of an introduction to a long series of posts I've been writing about what, fundamentally, it is that makes databases scale. The whole series is going to take me a long time, but hopefully there's something here folks will enjoy.