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

["Christen, Duane" <Duane.Christen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It also depends on what you are trying to scale, the front office (UI) or the back office (inventory, sales...)

Duane Christen

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Schroeder
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

... and running "Hello, World"

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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Henrik Rützou
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

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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