General Discussion
Hello all, does anyone have experience in scaling a european website to china? The main problem in china is the internet connectivity to websites outside china, that means latency and packetloss (and perhaps filtering) make things difficult. The options I see are: 1. Host you application in china, but where?
Product
From Wikipedia: SmartFrog is an open-source software framework, written in Java, that manages the configuration, deployment and coordination of a software system broken into components. These components may be distributed across several network hosts. The configuration of components is described using a domain-specific language, whose syntax resembles that of Java.
Example
Ever feel like the blogosphere is 500 million channels with nothing on? Tailrank finds the internet's hottest channels by indexing over 24M weblogs and feeds per hour. That's 52TB of raw blog content (no, not sewage) a month and requires continuously processing 160Mbits of IO. How
Strategy
Bees have a similar problem to website servers: how to do a lot of work with limited resources in an ever changing environment. Usually lessons from biology are hard to apply to computer problems. Nature throws hardware at problems. Billions and billions of cells cooperate at different levels of organizations
Product
From the website: The lbpool project provides a load balancing JDBC driver for use with DB connection pools. It wraps a normal JDBC driver providing reconnect semantics in the event of additional hardware availability, partial system failure, or uneven load distribution. It also evenly distributes all new connections among slave
EC2
Scoble the Ubiquitous has a fascinating post on how Mogulus, a live video channel startup, uses S3/EC2 and doesn't own a single server. The trends that have been happening for a while now are going mainstream. To do great things you no longer need to start by
I'm moving this from the forum section to the front page. Just FYI, any registered user can Submit a Link to this blog. You don't have to use the forums. In The Architectures You've Always Wondered About track at the Qcon conference, Second Life,
Clustering
Dryad is Microsoft's answer to Google's map-reduce. What's the question: How do you process really large amounts of data? My initial impression of Dryad is it's like a giant Unix command line filter on steroids. There are lots of inputs, outputs, tees,
Example
Update: Flickr hits 2 Billion photos served. That's a lot of hamburgers. Flickr is both my favorite bird and the web's leading photo sharing site. Flickr has an amazing challenge, they must handle a vast sea of ever expanding new content, ever increasing legions of users,
Friendster
Hey, this scaling stuff might just be important. Jim Scheinman, former Bebo and Friendster exec, puts the blame squarely on Friendster's inability to scale as why they lost the social networking race: VB: Can you tell me a bit about what you learned in your time at Friendster?
Product
Practically any software project nowadays could not survive without a database (DBMS) backend storing all the business data that is vital to you and/or your customers. When projects grow larger, the amount of data usually grows larger exponentially. So you start moving the DBMS to a separate server to
Strategy
Michael Nygard talks about Two Ways To Boost Your Flagging Web Site. The idea behind cache farms is to move memory devoted to the various caching layers into one large farm of caches, as with memcached. The idea behind read pools is to allocate your database read requests to a