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We will be developing an RIA that will have a lot of database access. Think something like a QuickBooks but with about 50 transactions entered per hour per user. Users will be in the system for 7 to 9 hours a day and there will be around 20,000 users,
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Hi everyone, I'm researching on Scalability for a college paper, and found this site great, but it has too many tips, articles and the like, but I can't see a hierarchical organization of subjects, I would need something like a checklist of things or fields, or
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Hi, we've got a web application, which runs without the common standalone application servers like tomcat or jboss, rather it runs with an embedded jetty server. Now we are planing to run instances of this application on multiple machines, with a load balancer serving the requests. The big
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G'day, I noticed the default sort order for the forum is to show the posts with the most replies first. That seems a bit odd for a forum. Would it not make sense to show the posts with the most recently replies first? It is possible to re-sort
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G'day, I'm building an application to manage WordPress PHP code on many servers. Our application will push down code updates to each server, as well as performing backups and testing. I'm considering different methods of pushing updated code onto the individual servers. I'
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Hello! My first post here, so be patient please. I am developing site where I have lots of static content. But on many pages I have query to update count of views. I would say this is may cause lots of problems and was interested in another solution like storing
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At least in the articles on Plenty of Fish and Slashdot it was mentioned that one can achieve higher performance by creating read-only and write-only databases where possible. I have read the comments and tried unsuccessfully to find more information on the net about this. I still do not understand
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Hi, Generating unique ids is a common requirements in many projects. Generally, this responsibility is given to Database layer. By using sequences or some other technique. This is a problem for horizontal scalability. What are the Guid generation schemes used in high scalable web sites generally? I have seen use
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I have a table .This table has many columns but search performed based on 1 columns ,this table can have more than million rows. The data in these columns is something like funny,new york,hollywood User can search with parameters as funny hollywood .I need to take this 2
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I would like to compile a comparison matrix on the total cost of ownership for .Net, Java, Lamp & Rails. Where should I start? Has anyone seen or know of a recent study on this subject?
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My first post, please be gentle. I know it is long. You are all like doctors - the more info, the better the diagnosis. ----------- What is the best way to store a list of all of your friends in the memcached cache (a simple boolean saying “yes this user
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Hi, I want to implement a search engine with lucene. To be scalable, I would like to execute search jobs asynchronously (with a job queuing system). But i don't know if it is a good design... Why ? Search results can be large ! (eg: 100+ pages with 25 documents