Asynchronous DB: DBSlayer & HTTP - igvita.comBy Ilya Grigorik on August 11, 2008 You hit a web 2.0 nerve and that magical 'viral coefficient' is working with full force, except now you' have a problem: scaling the database. No problem, you say, we have a few tricks up our sleeve: faster disks, loads of memory, dataset sharding, load balancing, connection pooling, master-master and master-slave replication schemes, multiple caching layers...
