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.

What is a "feature flag"?

High Scalability mentions feature flags here: 5 things toxic to scalability, "5. Lack of Feature Flags" What exactly are feature flags?

architecture scalability
What databases do the World Wide Web's biggest sites run on?

This question is meant to serve as a list of databases and their configurations that the major web sites use …

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How to design scalable applications?

How do you design/architect a scalable application? Any suggestion of books or websites that could help to understand how …

architecture scalability
socket: Too many open files (24) apache bench lighttpd

When I start Apache Bench test: ab -n 10000 -c 1300 http://domain.com/test.php I get error: socket: Too many …

apache scalability lighttpd file-descriptor
Is there some industry standard for unacceptable webapp response time?

There's a cots (commercial off-the-shelf) application that I work on customizing, where a couple of pages take an extremely long …

performance scalability duplication
What does scale horizontally and scale vertically mean?

In a three layer architecture with the database on the fourth, what does scaling horizontally and scaling vertically mean?

database performance scalability
WebRTC - scalable live stream broadcasting / multicasting

PROBLEM: WebRTC gives us peer-to-peer video/audio connections. It is perfect for p2p calls, hangouts. But what about broadcasting (…

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How Scalable is SQLite?

I recently read this Question about SQLite vs MySQL and the answer pointed out that SQLite doesn't scale well and …

sqlite scalability
Increasing PHP memory_limit. At what point does it become insane?

In a system I am currently working on, there is one process that loads large amount of data into an …

php memory scalability
Ruby on Rails scalability/performance?

I have used PHP for awhile now and have used it well with CodeIgniter, which is a great framework. I …

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