MyISAM, an aged MySQL engine with no transactional support and awful scalabililty spoiled many developers with an ultra fast count(*) implementation. But is ultra fast only when there is no conditions in the where part of the sentence.
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This are the slides of the talk I gave in #wp09 about scalability. They are in spanish but I will translate them to english in the near future.
Webprendedor 2009 Escalabilidad
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This Nov 20th I will give a talk on the challenge of scalating a web application, main topics will be:
Plan to grow: While building your app, ALWAYS consider scalability.
Know your technology stack: From the file system to the edge cache.
Keep it simple: DB sharding, just say no.
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