>2. Confederated - Completely distributed. Each machine is its own monolithic platform with everything from DNS to database, including web server on that node, but a cluster of nodes gives you scalability, and workload is distributed across the cluster. (I'm not aware of any examples of this, which is why I'm building Nirvana.)
A bit late to this conversation, but the Opa platform appears to be an attempt at this:
The front page talks about MongoDB integration, but when it was first announced it sounded like the DB was integrated into the framework. Maybe they changed it since, don't know. It's popped up on HN a few times last year in case you want to dig up those discussions.
A bit late to this conversation, but the Opa platform appears to be an attempt at this:
http://opalang.org/
The front page talks about MongoDB integration, but when it was first announced it sounded like the DB was integrated into the framework. Maybe they changed it since, don't know. It's popped up on HN a few times last year in case you want to dig up those discussions.