Application Design
• Web apps
– Use (but don’t over-use) connection pooling
– Use middleware to abstract the database
• May also provide caching and pooling
– Don’t keep everything in the database!
• Images can live on the file system
• But you might want to replicate them
– Pick the fastest driver you can
• Java has several, Perl has two
• On Windows, use the “most native”
Copyright 2002, Jeremy Zawodny (Jeremy@Zawodny.com)