> I'm curious if anybody has practical experience developing a reasonably trafficked website in a similar manner.
I personally didn't develop but I've talked to people who did. The Estonian national web portal `eesti.ee` intially ran on stored procedures (and technically survived the DDoS of 2007 but was taken down "just in case" :S), later some Java garbage layer was added which significantly worsened the performance and made further development significantly harder.
I personally didn't develop but I've talked to people who did. The Estonian national web portal `eesti.ee` intially ran on stored procedures (and technically survived the DDoS of 2007 but was taken down "just in case" :S), later some Java garbage layer was added which significantly worsened the performance and made further development significantly harder.