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Database Scaling: War Stories From Leading Sites

Title: Database Scaling: War Stories From Leading Sites
URL: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/03/12/database-scaling-war-stories/
Printed: March 19, 2010
Source: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com

If your own IT wizards are responsible for the care and feeding of your web app databases, I highly recommend this series of fascinating posts on database strategy put up by O’Reilly last spring. Tim O’Rielly interviewed prominent web sites on the nuts and bolts of their database approaches.

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