Dragon's Prophet preview: how to catch your dragon
Report: Respawn Entertainment co-founder left due to personal conflict
Oculus Rift secures $16 million in venture capital
Max Payne 3 slowly dives onto Mac this week
Report: Frostbite 3 games to be 'optimized exclusively' for AMD cards
Evening O'Reading
by Alice O'Connor, Apr 17, 2009 6:00pm PDTOh, is the week over already? Doesn't time fly when you're having fun! Now, I collapse into a slumber so deep only true love or screeching children outside could rouse me.
If you like video games you're in luck, because this is a video games website:
- Street Fighter 4 to get free tournament mode.
- GTA: Chinatown Wars sales are disappointingly low, you bums.
- Staggering Demigod piracy figures.
- Earth 2160 is finally fixed on Steam, huzzah!
- F.E.A.R. 2 patch with Toy Soliders maps arrives, trailers still awesome.
- Terror of Left 4 Dead Survival Pack conveyed by graphs.
Their investors better hurry up and do an IPO while the hype is still alive.
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Because it automatically distributes the data over your server pool (if you have more than one) it gives you a lot of room for easy growth. If you're hitting the memory limit on your DB or web server, just buy some low end hardware with lots of ram and setup memcached on there. Obviously there is always LAN network latency to be concerned about but you're working with an extra ten to twenty milliseconds and that probably won't matter.
I bet twitter could have easily avoided most of its scaling failures if the did fragment caching from the start (although I'm pretty sure that wasn't in rails back in the day).
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