Re: Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

[Henrik RÃtzou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

as long as you keep scalability within a 128 concurrent RISC processors
range and one DB,
I dont think you have a scalability problem

/Henrik

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> What's interesting to me is that it almost seems that scalability has
> nothing to do with how well something performs but rather how well it
> can progress to use more resources!  LOL!
>
> So if RPG output a string of "HelloWorld" in 1 msecond and Java did it
> in 2 mseconds, we aren't necessarily considering that RPG is more
> scalable - just that it can accomplish a particular task faster.
> Though that may mean the point in time we need to scale is later using
> RPG and sooner with Java - so in a way the language (or rather the
> language runtime) *could* be a scalability issue.
>
> Thoughts?
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > From: Aaron Bartell
> > > Maybe we should define scalability.
> >
> > The Wikipedia definition works for me. "scalability is a desirable
> property of a
> > system, a network, or a process, which indicates its ability to either
> handle
> > growing amounts of work in a graceful manner or to be enlarged."
> >
> > Under that definition CGIDEV2 would scale well just by running under IBM
> i where
> > available resources (processors, memory, etc.) are automatically
> allocated to
> > separate jobs.  No need to configure anything, except standard HTTP
> server
> > configuration directives allowing a given number of threads and CGI
> server jobs,
> > timeouts, and so forth.  Native workloads automatically scale to use
> available
> > resources.
> >
> > Is the same true for J2EE and PHP?
> >
> > -Nathan.
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