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 simulate high traffic load on a web application?

I wrote a Python web API that may get large amounts of requests per day. I want to test load …

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What are the max rows for MySQL table

Note: I've searched for other similar Qs here, and none of the other answered questions are even remotely similar.. With …

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What specifically makes Node.js more scalable than Apache?

To be honest I've not understood it completely yet - and I even do understand how Node.js works, as …

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How do I speed up deletes from a large database table?

Here's the problem I am trying to solve: I have recently completed a data layer re-design that allows me to …

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Pros and Cons of Sticky Session / Session Affinity load blancing strategy?

One approach to high scalability is to use network load balancing to split processing load between several servers. One challenge …

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Scaling Node.js

I'm fairly new to large-scale server-side development. I want to write a server using Node.js, but before I forge …

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Where does Redis store the data

I am using redis for pub/sub as well as for server side cache. I mean my app server has …

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What background image size will fit the page size on every monitor?

I'm going to try and create an image that will be the background for my website and scale to every …

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Why NoSQL is better at "scaling out" than RDBMS?

I have read the following text in a technical blog discussing the advantages and disadvantages of NoSQL " For years, in …

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SharePoint List Scalability

I am particularly interested in Document Libraries, but in terms of general SharePoint lists, can anyone answer the following...? What …

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