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14th April 2007 - Link Blog

Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases. Ryan Tomayko explains how his team spreads a high traffic Rails application across five separate PostgreSQL databases by giving each client their own schema—similar to how WordPress MU scales.

Posted 14th April 2007 at 2:32 am

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