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 scalable is Parse?

I've been considering using Parse.com's service for my backend, but I'm skeptical about its scalability. Can it really handle …

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Caveats of select/poll vs. epoll reactors in Twisted

Everything I've read and experienced ( Tornado based apps ) leads me to believe that ePoll is a natural replacement for Select …

networking scalability twisted capacity-planning
Best practices for web service timeouts

It there any article/book that defines upper bounded design limits for WS timeouts? Do you timeout at the server …

wcf web-services timeout scalability
Can relational database scale horizontally

After some googling I have found: Note from mysql docs: MySQL Cluster automatically shards (partitions) tables across nodes, enabling databases …

mysql transactions scalability horizontal-scaling nosql
No PHP for large projects? Why not?

I've read a few posts where people have stated (not suggested, not discussed, not offered) that PHP should not be …

php scalability projects
How to make a distributed node.js application?

Creating a node.js application is simple enough. var app = require('express')(); app.get('/',function(req,res){ res.…

node.js http scalability
open source alternatives to oracle coherence?

Are there any open source alternatives to oracle coherence? (btw, how much does coherence cost anyways?)

java scalability oracle-coherence
Celery and Django simple example

Let's take a simple Django example. app/models.py from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import …

python django celery scalability
Why are some websites spread across www2, www3 sub-domains whilst others manage scaling without it?

I know it's to do with having a variety of load balancing servers, but why do some sites make use …

url scalability load-balancing scaling subdomain
How do you backup Zookeeper?

I have read that copying the data directory will work. But, that is a combination of logs and snapshots. How …

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