Tag: Scalability
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Performance vs. Scalability
Scalable System Design: Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the transaction volume and their performance expectation has grown tremendously. This one covers general considerations. The mathematical approach is explained in Scalability at the Cost of Availability: Do you associate…
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Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps
Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps: We dubbed it “our Christmas,” the day when all our good engineering deeds would pay off and we’d be rewarded with a bounty of happy active users for our mobile app, Avocado. Nice one, if your mobile app is growing like crazy. Via Check Yourself…
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How do I freaking scale Oracle?
How do I freaking scale Oracle?: For the record, I’m a NoSQLer and a big data guy. After nearly 20 years of dealing with what I’ve come to refer to as “the beast” (aka Oracle), I’ve turned coat and decided I prefer solving the problem rather than mitigating it. That said, many companies I work…
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How to Handle a Super Bowl Size Spike in Web Traffic
How to Handle a Super Bowl Size Spike in Web Traffic: To handle more requests there are three things you can do: produce (render) content faster, deliver (download) content faster and add more servers to handle more connections. Each of these solutions has a limit. Designing for these limits is architecting for scale. Another one…
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Controlling the load into your services and applications
Controlling the load into your services and applications: Administrators are occasionally faced with the task to size their applications farms properly so it can sustain network growth for the years to come. The lesson to be learned here is: You can do everything right when sizing your application/service, but you need to be ready for…
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The Scale of the Universe
The Scale of the Universe 2. Very nice to play around the scale of the universe from 10-24 to 1026!
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Clustrix Raises more Money
Clustrix raised some more millions, reports Techcrunch. With its unique parallel query approach, the distributed database allows you to scale by simply adding nodes—with no upper limit. No application downtime. No sharding. The Clustrix database can scale limitlessly with fault tolerance and full ACID compliance. It’s MySQL compatible and uses MVCC to get around the…
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Scalability and Databases
Following up on yesterday’s scalability post, here are some more pointers to interesting articles about scalability and databases: The Complexities of Scale tries to explore the meaning of the term “scale,” specifically in the context of cloud computing. Scale-out vs Scale-up explains, the difference between multi-core concurrency that is often referred to as Scale-Up and…
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Applying Scalability Patterns to Infrastructure Architecture
Applying Scalability Patterns to Infrastructure Architecture gives a good overview of the different ways to scale your infrastructure. Too often software design patterns are overlooked by network and application delivery network architects but these patterns are often equally applicable to addressing a broad range of architectural challenges in the application delivery tier of the data…
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