Re: how would you scale a cake app?

On 12/24/06, keymaster <admin@...> wrote:
>
> .. just dreaming, but..
>
> If one wanted to use cake to build an app which is scalable to the
> extreme, ie. flickr.com or yourtube.com or myspace.com, how would you
> do it?

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/php_scalability.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/digg_phps_scalability_and_perf.html

> Would you just separate out the db server and replicate the rest on
> identical nodes in a cluster? Would you break up the app into view
> servers, controller servers, and model servers?

That depends. Scalability is a difficult issue to handle if it is not
considered during the initial application design stage. If you want to
be able to scale up your application, you might as well decide on a
strategy *now*.
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