Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
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Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
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Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#2this is true, and why fastly is kindof like a globally distributed nearly-cache-coherent key value store that people use as a CDN.
there's a great talk on how its done with a custom gossip protocol implementation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfO_6bKsy_g
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#3CDN post with no performance talk (beside keyword).
Never mention lower performance (even on single-node). Add to that aws-vps with pseudo-cores and spectre-upgrade and good luck with your tps-reports.
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#4this is true, and why fastly is kindof like a globally distributed nearly-cache-coherent key value store that people use as a CDN. there's a great talk on how its done with a custom gossip protocol implementation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfO_6bKsy_g
This is super interesting; thanks for the pointer.
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#5Imagine a globally replicated and version controlled object store. You could use this for data, assets, source code, anything you like. Would be incredibly useful for both the development side of things, as well as production.
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#6Imagine a globally replicated and version controlled object store. You could use this for data, assets, source code, anything you like. Would be incredibly useful for both the development side of things, as well as production.
Why not store the data only where you live ? Worst case meteor strikes and you die with your data.
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#7Imagine a globally replicated and version controlled object store. You could use this for data, assets, source code, anything you like. Would be incredibly useful for both the development side of things, as well as production.
We could call it the World Wide Web.
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#8Imagine a globally replicated and version controlled object store. You could use this for data, assets, source code, anything you like. Would be incredibly useful for both the development side of things, as well as production.
We could call it the World Wide Web.
It would fall short of all of these goals, as it would get turned into advertisement, colorful magazine pseudocontent and malware distribution platform.
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
We could call it the World Wide Web.
It would fall short of all of these goals, as it would get turned into advertisement, colorful magazine pseudocontent and malware distribution platform.
Don’t we now have both things, with the latter subsidising the former?
Re: Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
#10Imagine a globally replicated and version controlled object store. You could use this for data, assets, source code, anything you like. Would be incredibly useful for both the development side of things, as well as production.
>Imagine a globally replicated and version controlled object store.
S3?