Session Scalable Distributed Web Sessions With MySQL Phillip Morelock Track: LAMP Date: Tuesday, April 19 Time: 1:30pm - 2:15pm Location: Ballroom F TrackBack There are dozens of non-scalable, complex techniques for user-session management in web applications. Many high-traffic sites don't use sessions at all (often hitting their transactional databases), or attempt to "stick" users to one particular server, which adds complexity and reduces fault tolerance. MySQL allows a simple, elegant, and highly scalable solution for web session management, using only one three-column table. A couple of clever hacks--along with the speed and simplicity of MySQL--can give sysadmins peace of mind and developers the ability to simplify architectures and cut out code. Java's object-oriented semantics are a natural fit for session tracking, but the same concepts could be implemented in any web language. Download presentation file

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