Google's Adam Bosworth: Use RSS/Atom, not WS*

To massively scale Web sites, developers need to turn their attention from the WS* protocol stack to a new set of database access wire protocols that need to be built on top of the RSS/Atom syndication protocols. At least, that's how I interpret what Adam Bosworth is telling the assembled MySQL conference attendees this morning. Since Bosworth is at Google, he's in an interesting position to make this happen. I've known Bosworth since his Microsoft days. "You guys can be Google too," Bosworth says. When audio of this keynote is posted on IT Conversations, I'll point to it. It's the most impressive talk I've heard in the past year of conference attendance and podcast listening. As someone who used to write about the scalability limitations of centralized databases, I get it, Adam.