General Discussion
If using a DB to store session(used by some app server, ex.. websphere), how would an enterprise class site that is housed in 2 different data centers(that are live/live) maintain the session between both data centers. The problem as I see it is that since each data
General Discussion
All, My site would have heavy content (video/pictures). I'm looking for an efficient IPS/IDS solution which would not introduce much of latency. I'm more familiar with Cisco ASA and also familiar with Juniper, Foundry and others. I also came across snort but haven'
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An Amazon EC2 Flash Video Streaming solution has been announced by Wowza Media. What do you think about the future of similar solutions? Is Amazon EC2 and S3 ready for video streaming? I have found threads on their forums related to the performance, scalability and high availability of the hosted
Product
From their website: There are a number of times in which you find yourself needing performance data. These can include benchmarking, monitoring a system's general heath or trying to determine what your system was doing at some time in the past. Sometimes you just want to know what
General Discussion
We have a database today that holds all of our shared inventory. How do we scale out ? We run into concurrency issues today as mutliple users may want to access the same inventory,etc. Im sure its a common problem.. So how do folks implement this while also having faster
General Discussion
Let me begin by saying that I have used and continue to use various ORM frameworks such as hibernate, ibatis, propel and activerecord in applications and websites that have a user base ranging from a couple hundred to 500k users. Especially for projects that have to be up and running
Scalability
Large scale distributed instant messaging, presence based protocol are a real challenge. With big players adopting the standard, the XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) community is facing the need to validate protocol and implementations to even larger scale.
Example
How do you query hundreds of gigabytes of new data each day streaming in from over 600 hyperactive servers? If you think this sounds like the perfect battle ground for a head-to-head skirmish in the great MapReduce Versus Database War, you would be correct. Bill Boebel, CTO of Mailtrust (Rackspace&
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Hi, I am using drupal for my clients website, and was thinking is it possible to host all ( about 500) of them on the same server(maybe VPS or dedicated). Here is the situation..... Each clients website has a database with about 50 tables each, all the databases are small
General Discussion
I am planning the scaling of a hosted service, similar to typepad etc. and would appreciate feedback on my plan so far. Looking into scaling storage, I have come accross MogileFS and OpenAFS. My concern with these is I am not at all experienced with them and as the sole
Oracle
One of the most interesting new features of Oracle 11 is the new function result caching mechanism. Until now, making sure that a PL/SQL function gets executed only as many times as necessary was a black art. The new caching system makes that quite easy -- here is how
General Discussion
OK, I know this site is for scalable web site design. But as there aren't any sites I can find for graceful failure under "slashdotted" like pressure I'll ask here. Does anyone have a sensible way, once you have a "web application"