Comments on: Scaling: still hard http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2005/10/27/scaling-still-hard/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:39:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ookles Blog » “Scaling: Don’t do it”? http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2005/10/27/scaling-still-hard/#comment-178 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:31:56 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=54#comment-178 [...] eat interest: his mind map of the later panel discussion.) More good stuff on scaling from Chad Dickerson, who points to a detailed PPT on LAMP hardware by John Allspaw of [...]

]]> By: allspaw http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2005/10/27/scaling-still-hard/#comment-177 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:19:31 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=54#comment-177 A lot of the scaling issues that people are seeing are not solely due to the language or scripting framework that the application is built in.

It’s so much more than that. At friendster, we did a LOT of things for scaling. And only one of them was using PHP, migrating from Java. Of course people came out of the woodwork to debate the two and their scalability.

Of course, while that was happening, we completely re-architected the database layout, got a boatload of new equipment, moved datacenters, and build a good deal of custom code that actually had something to do with scaling.

I think that sometimes there’s a confusion between programming language scalability, which doesn’t really have a lot to do with how the application performs under increasing load, and the application’s supporting infrastructure, which does.

]]> By: vanderwal http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2005/10/27/scaling-still-hard/#comment-176 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:08:45 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=54#comment-176 Excellent! I have been tracking these issues of late (well the last year) as I went though similar issues about 5 to 6 years ago and it is something at the forefront again with me.

I have talked with many developers about Ruby on Rails implementations in large use communities. The have been seeing it not scale too easily and have stayed with/gone to Python and other development tools, which do have the availability to scale. It seems Rails is a great prototype tool, but for intensive use web application it is not a decent solution. I am looking for more understanding on this (not looking at Ruby or Rails for what I am not working on) as I am just curious, is it the ColdFusion of the day?

]]> By: Ravi’s Blog » Blog Archive » Scaling http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2005/10/27/scaling-still-hard/#comment-175 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:50:05 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=54#comment-175 [...] Scaling Just read this post about scaling by chad. I have to agree with him. Cheap does not mean easy It just co [...]

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