How prismic.io scales dynamic content as if it were static

https://blog.prismic.io/UlMRYknM0-kFs5Cy/how-prismicio-api-scales

by sadache • 13 years ago

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noelwelsh• 13 years ago

Sounds like Prismic operates very much like Git. Or like a persistent data structure, depending on how you like your analogies.

I would like to read more detail on the "redundent[sic] distributed storage server". That seems a major part of the system, and you hand-wave over it.

[There are several typos I noticed: redundent => redundant, developped => developed]

sadache3• 13 years ago

Yeah, persistent data structures, Git, Datomic, are the inspirations. Thanks for the heads up.

jimparkins• 13 years ago

Love the idea of these cloud based services and I also like the idea of a content management app that does not want to try and take over your application. However outside of personal projects at work I am scared that these cloud based blackboxes at the heart of my applications will mean that I have no control of bad performance, releases of their software or unplanned downtime. I wish that people gave me the option for a self hosted solution as well as the cloud (that was not a ultra premium we do not bother listing it on the website package)... plenty of enterprises are still self hosting.

sadache3• 13 years ago

I guess as a SaaS company, you need to prove to your future users that you won't break their projects in different aspects. That is how we have got to use Github, Vimeo, Google Docs, ... etc

muglug• 13 years ago

Really interesting. If I'm reading it right, every release (e.g. a homepage refresh) gets packaged up as a separate Lucene Solr Index. Interesting approach. One drawback is that they don't appear to keep previous indexes lying around, so it's not possible to see what your site looked like in the past (though there's always the Wayback Machine).

Having implemented a very similar system (albeit one that relies on SQL as a key-value version store, caching queries heavily and invalidating those caches where appropriate), very impressed with their implementation.

sadache3• 13 years ago

Actually you're right. You can see the state of your website/app in the current version, in the future and in the past.

How prismic.io scales dynamic content as if it were static

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