[lug] mysqldump versus snapshot versus..

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 05:27:44PM -0400, steve at badcheese.com wrote:
>If performance is a big deal, I'd recommend memcached to wrap around your 
>DB calls.  Also used at livejournal.com (and pronto.com).  :)  Our QA DB 

Yep, the memcached "here's why we created memcached" page is also the
"don't expect mysql replication slaves to help performance" page.  :-)

Sean
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