Example
Wikipedia and Wikimedia have some of the best, most complete real-world documentation on how to build highly scalable systems. This paper by Domas Mituzas covers a lot of details about how Wikipedia works, including: an overview of the different packages used (Linux, PowerDNS, LVS, Squid, lighttpd, Apache, PHP5, Lucene, Mono,
General Discussion
I just heard about some web sites where Velocity templates are used to render HTML instead of using JSPs and all the processing in performed in servlets. Can JSPs cause issue with scalability? Thanks, Unmesh
General Discussion
Who can answer or analyze the image store and visit solution about alibaba.com?Thanks
Strategy
Jesse Robbins at O'Reily Radar has a nice post on how spending a little up front time on figuring out how to scale your operations process saves money on ops people and allows you to save time adding and upgrading servers. Adding, monitoring, and upgrading servers can get
Strategy
One of the premier scaling strategies is always: get someone else to do the work for you. But unlike Huckleberry Finn in Tom Sawyer, you won't have to trick anyone into whitewashing a fence for you. Times have changed. Companies like Ning, Facebook, and Salesforce are more than
Cluster File System
pNFS (parallel NFS) is the next generation of NFS and its main claim to fame is that it's clustered, which "enables clients to directly access file data spread over multiple storage servers in parallel. As a result, each client can leverage the full aggregate bandwidth of a
Product
Update 2: 3tera has added Dynamic Appliances, which are "packaged data center operations like backup, migration or SLAs that users can add to their applications to provide functionality." Update: in an effort to help cross the chasm of how start building a website using their grid OS, 3tera
Strategy
Robert Stewart shared this useful Ajax related scalability strategy: We avoided XMLHttpRequests for individual keystrokes, choosing to go back to the server only when a field lost focus. Google can afford all the servers to handle the load for that, but we didn't want to. Do you have
replication
File replication based on erasure codes can reduce total replicas size 2 times and more.
AJAX
I've been using GWT for an application and I get the same feeling using it that I first got using html. I've always sucked at building UIs. Starting with programming HP terminals, moving on to the Apple Lisa, then X Windows, and Microsoft Windows, I just
General Discussion
Hello,everybody,I'm plant to building a new website like 2008.sina.com.cn 2008.sohu.com .site contents have pic news,text news,and video news.user blog ....now I have a question to ask everybody,I hope can get usefully information to here. status: 100,000,
General Discussion
I have 3 exp in building website using java.I work on only single server.Website is not very scalable.I always wonder how ebay,youtube,monster handle traffic, giving responses within seconds.From the google i find this site and i hope i can also able to build very