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.

Why are Azure Resource Groups associated with a specific region?

I'm new to Azure architecture and am trying to understand why Azure Resource Groups, which are logical deployment buckets for …

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Design Patterns (or techniques) for Scalability

What design patterns or techniques have you used that are specifically geared toward scalability? Patterns such as the Flyweight pattern …

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Best Spring batch scaling strategy

We have simple batch processes which are working fine. Recently we have new reqmnt to implement new batch process to …

spring parallel-processing spring-batch scalability
Extreme Sharding: One SQLite Database Per User

I'm working on a web app that is somewhere between an email service and a social network. I feel it …

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How to store PHP sessions in APC Cache?

Storing sessions in disk very slow and painful for me. I'm having very high traffic. I want to store session …

php session caching scalability
Strategies for fast searches of billions of small documents in MongoDB

I need to store several billion small data structures (around 200 bytes each). So far, storing each element as a separate …

mongodb search scalability pymongo database-performance
Error from postgresql 9.0 archiving while configuring hot streaming replication

I am trying to get streaming replication running on postgresql 9.0. I am following the steps as mentioned in the link : …

postgresql streaming scalability database-replication archiving
Java + NodeJS communicating via socket: Bad Idea?

I like some features of NodeJS, particularly JQuerification, websocket compatibility via socket.io, view and css engines that I cannot …

java node.js scalability
Jenkins multiple masters

We are planning to implement a little Jenkins server farm which will continuously build our binaries as code is getting …

jenkins scalability load-balancing high-availability
What is the disadvantage of just using Redis instead of an RDBMS?

So if for example I am trying to implement something that looks like Facebook's Graph API that needs to be …

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