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Comment by andrewparker | Hacker News Reader

This is post is little more than link bait (and I guess I'm falling for it by commenting).

With all due respect andrew why dont you share your technical analysis of what exactly I am saying that is wrong here. Btw, have you ever actually worked on any database scaling problems? Just checking.

I have. I have managed systems that handle millions of clicks a day in databases and billions of dynamic (PHP) pageviews on a daily basis.

I am currently managing a system that serves over 100,000 DNS queries per second, each of which is dynamically evaluated as to how we respond to it. And each of which is logged, amounting to over 7,000,000,000 log lines a day, all which get processed, parsed and in many cases handed over to a database store. Yep, we're dealing with BILLIONS of rows of MySQL per day.

Nevertheless you believe that there is no way to handle a distributed in-memory lookup system. It just goes to show you cant know everything.

What do you mean? I've used distributed hash tables (in memory or otherwise) for years...

Do you have anything online about your architecture? I think it'd be interesting to see how those 100k queries per second get served.

Hey thanks for OpenDNS by the way, I'm a long time user, and I love it.

I'll be speaking about it for the first time at the Velocity Conference in June. I'll have slides available.

I'm now curious as to why you switched from zeitgeist to molotovs. The yuppie hordes at Zeitgeist are extreme but it is so hard to move back indoors...

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