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 large eCommerce sites are so fast?

I have been working on asp.net mvc3 e-commerce application based on NopCommerce. Recently we have been working on performance …

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Failed requests by length in my ApacheBench load test result

I have a website in PHP, Lighttpd. It uses also MySQL on Centos 5. I've tested my PHP with code below …

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Is CodeIgniter a wise choice for large applications?

I keep on reading how great codeigniter is from a development standpoint. And I am sure that using the framework …

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Scalable delayed task execution with Redis

I need to design a Redis-driven scalable task scheduling system. Requirements: Multiple worker processes. Many tasks, but long periods of …

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Django Tag model design

I am wondering if the following is the correct way to create tagging system for images and being able to …

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Websockets and scalability

Am a beginner with websockets. Have a need in my application where server needs to notify clients when something changes …

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How am I supposed to interpret the results from Apache's ab benchmarking tool?

Alright, I've searched everywhere and I can't seem to find a detailed resource online for how to interpret the results …

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Are there any REAL advantages to NoSQL over RDBMS for structured data on one machine?

So I've been trying hard to figure out if NoSQL is really bringing that much value outside of auto-sharding and …

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AWS vs Heroku vs something else for scalable platform?

Considering you're a startup with no funds for own server farm. Which existing solution can give you a peace of …

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Understanding results of mongostat

I am trying to understand the results of mongostat: example insert query update delete getmore command flushes mapped vsize res …

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