Application for GSoC Project - Package WebUI

[Les Mikesell]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:

>>I agree the data side
>> In other words, instead of calling interfaces provided by these
>> backends (which is, obviously, more costly) , MyFedora will be
>> directly access the databases and manipulate the data to be in a more
>> user-centric and useful views (am I right?).
> 
> I generally do not want to talk to a DB directly though if performance
> becomes an issue I might have to.  Generally it goes 
> 
> MyFedora <-json-> mfquery proxy <-json/xmlrpc etc.-> Fedora Resource
> <-db connection-> DB.
> 
> The proxy is there so I can call async via JavaScript so the only thing
> one would gain from a direct DB connection is to get rid of the HTTP
> connection to the fedora resource but then you lose any of the business
> logic above and beyond the actual data.

Why not throw in a hook to use memcached 
(http://www.danga.com/memcached/) in front the DB queries?  Then if you 
have performance/scaling problems you just add more cache.


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   Les Mikesell
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