Okay, this xml and rss shit is all very well but it's not going to work. Say there's a live rss of headlines, updating every few minutes, that I want to feed to this page. Obviously I don't want to request the RSS every time I get a pageview, so I'll cache it every five minutes, say. But then what if everyone's doing it? The idea of rss is to easily syndicate content, but as it stands it's simply not scalable.
What we need is a distributed cache. Um. I'm still figuring out how that should work (push, I reckon, and a hierarchic flow. But there needs to be information flow upstream too, which is where I'm stuck).
Okay, this xml and rss shit is all very well but it's not going to work. Say there's a live rss of headlines, updating every few minutes, that I want to feed to this page. Obviously I don't want to request the RSS every time I get a pageview, so I'll cache it every five minutes, say. But then what if everyone's doing it? The idea of rss is to easily syndicate content, but as it stands it's simply not scalable.
What we need is a distributed cache. Um. I'm still figuring out how that should work (push, I reckon, and a hierarchic flow. But there needs to be information flow upstream too, which is where I'm stuck).