Top "Scalability" questions

Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.

How to scale the Quartz scheduler?

I plan to use the Quartz scheduler as I read many good opinions about it. My problem is as follows: …

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What is the best way I can scale my nodejs app?

The basics Right now a few of my friends and I are trying to develope a browser game made in …

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Achievements / Badges system

I have been browsing this site for the answer but I'm still a little unsure how to plan a similar …

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Does Scala scale better than other JVM languages?

Here is the only way I know to ask it at the moment. As Understand it Scala uses the Java …

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What is the best architecture for tracking field changes on objects?

We have a web application that is built on top of a SQL database. Several different types of objects can …

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Two Questions Regarding AWS' RDS Multi AZ

I understand that when upgrading to a Multi-AZ rds from a Single-AZ, there occurs a "breef i/o freeze". What …

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Looking for distributed/scalable database solution where all nodes are read/write? Not MongoDB?

I'm looking to implement a database that can be widely distributed geographically and such that each node can be read/…

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Scalable Node.js application architecture

In the past, I was playing with Node.js only on my local machine so I only have experience with …

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Any thoughts on RightScale and Scalr for dynamic Ec2 instance management

I'm looking for a cost effective tool for managing an web app on Ec2. Rightscale seems to the big dog …

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Tomcat doing 15K req/second on a single server using Jersey Jax-RS

I tried testing things on a VPS, and came close to 10K requests per second, and that was a simple …

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