General Discussion
Hi, We are running a backup solution that uploads every night the files our clients worked on during the day (Cabonite-like). We have currently about 10GB of data per night, via http PUT requests (1 per file), and the files are written as-is on a NAS. Our architecture is basically
Cluster File System
DataDirect Networks (www.ddn.com) is searching for beta testers for our exciting new object-based clustered storage system. Does this sound like you? * Need to store millions to hundreds of billions of files * Want to use one big file system but can't because no single file system scales
General Discussion
Hello, I'm developing a product I thought of. As a part of it, I'm trying to figure out the best architecture for the product. It's a server application, what is supposed to serve A LOT of users at a time. Think of an IM
General Discussion
I have two servers connected via Internet (NOT IN THE SAME LAN) serving the same website (http://www.ourexample.com).The problem is files uploaded on serverA and serverB cannot see each other immediately,thus rsync with certain intervals is not a good solution. Can anybody give me some advice
General Discussion
This may be a bit higher level then the general discussion here, but I think this is an important issue in how it relates to reliability and uptime. What kind of SLAs should we be expecting from SaaS services and platforms (e.g. AWS, Google App Engine, Google Premium Apps,
General Discussion
hi, What are the practices followed, tools used to measure session memory requirement per user? Thanks, Unmesh
General Discussion
Hi there, I have an idea for an online database that services a large number of people. I've been studying it for a while and it seems feasible to me to create it and get people to populate it. It will need time to grow but eventually it
General Discussion
How would you architect and implement an SD and HD internet video delivery system such as the BBC iPlayer or Recast Digital's RDV1. What do you need to consider on top of the Lessons Learned section in the YouTube Architecture post? How is it possible to compete with
General Discussion
Hi, I am looking for logical architecture of content management of portal. Say an org has got lot of business process and integrates with few applicaitons and it is portal based application. How does it look to have architecture framework for this type of fucntionality.
General Discussion
Hi all, I'm a big fan of / and have been looking in my current development to decompose my application along functional boundaries as a route to being able to scale out the server side, specifically the database layer. The problem comes when there are links between the data
General Discussion
Hi, I am very glad that this site exists, as I have learned more about clustering on this site than for quite some time reading stuff elsewhere. Oftentimes, one can find lots of material about clustering, but the practical real-life information is missing. Not so wih this site. I am
General Discussion
Hello everyone, I'm designing a website/widget that my business partner and I expect to serve millions of hits daily. As such we must shard our database (and we're designing with shards in mind right from the beginning). However, the one thing I haven't