Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:26 pm
What was described above in the zefhemel.com article is what I described above. That article is dated in 2004. I built this cluster back in late '01 into '02. The idea of "Shared Nothing" was the ONLY LOGICAL SOLUTION in a stateless environment. The term "Shared Nothing" came up after the fact, much the same way AJAX did.arborint wrote: I'm quite suprised that people do not associate "share-nothing" with PHP. Rasmus Lerdorf has been refering to it as such for a while:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/ar ... _php.html]
http://itconversations.com/shows/detail58.html
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about567.html
http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/0 ... chitecture
Additionally, you could take this approach in any language. The reason it may be percieved as a PHP thing is because of Rasmus and others talking about as well as how others (as in differring programming communities) are accustomed to dealing with session data. We were doing it with PHP and VB. The VB transaction servers (this was a real time lottery operation in South America BTW) stored their session info in the DB as well.