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diff --git a/docs/replication.rst b/docs/replication.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 310abb3488..0000000000 --- a/docs/replication.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -Replication Architecture -======================== - -Motivation ----------- - -We'd like to be able to split some of the work that synapse does into multiple -python processes. In theory multiple synapse processes could share a single -postgresql database and we'd scale up by running more synapse processes. -However much of synapse assumes that only one process is interacting with the -database, both for assigning unique identifiers when inserting into tables, -notifying components about new updates, and for invalidating its caches. - -So running multiple copies of the current code isn't an option. One way to -run multiple processes would be to have a single writer process and multiple -reader processes connected to the same database. In order to do this we'd need -a way for the reader process to invalidate its in-memory caches when an update -happens on the writer. One way to do this is for the writer to present an -append-only log of updates which the readers can consume to invalidate their -caches and to push updates to listening clients or pushers. - -Synapse already stores much of its data as an append-only log so that it can -correctly respond to /sync requests so the amount of code changes needed to -expose the append-only log to the readers should be fairly minimal. - -Architecture ------------- - -The Replication Protocol -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -See ``tcp_replication.rst`` - - -The Slaved DataStore -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -There are read-only version of the synapse storage layer in -``synapse/replication/slave/storage`` that use the response of the replication -API to invalidate their caches. |