03-30-2005, 10:56 PM
Darian,Mar 30 2005, 07:30 AM Wrote:I mean, when's the last time you heard of AOL having problems like this? They solved this issue almost 10 years ago, but in that time not one MMO (and keep in mind we're talking about services with 1/10 as many users as AOL is handling) has managed to properly architect their systems so they're appropriately scalable?[right][snapback]72428[/snapback][/right]AOL's virtually exclusively read based cacheable systems are trivial compared to what is done in an MMO. If you find someone who's solved the performance issues inherent in steady state databases (where business logic variables are required to be DB posted before completing) please let me know. Most DB environments are like raid 5. Easy to read from, easy to cripple on fast simultaneous writes.