Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My definition of "scalable" is that it can serve more users, without
re-doing the application.

Mike Wills wrote:
> Maybe your definitions are different than mine.
>
> My definition of scalable is growing to more than one server. I don't know
> what yours is.
>
> "Throwing more hardware at a performance problem is not my idea of
> scalability." The last I checked, you have to add more memory or add a CPU
> to a IBM i to enhance performance as well. You can't take a low-end i and
> expect it to process millions of hits an hour. The difference is that most
> PC hardware don't support 32 CPUs or more. They are built cheap. So for the
> cost of that additional web server, I have added another CPU and more memory
> to my i. (Okay, so I don't know that is fully true, but it isn't cheap to
> upgrade an i). So really, I AM throwing hardware at the problem. The only
> difference is that we can get a system big enough that could handle those
> high loads and keep a "single machine". Which from what I have seen these
> days are still racks of servers (to the non-initiated).
>
> Performance is different. Poor performance could be fixed with more
> hardware, but most high-traffic sites throw hardware to temporarily ease the
> problems it until they fix it permanently (like Twitter had to do).
>
> Unless they know their site will see heavy use from launch, many developers
> don't look at the issues in creating scalable sites until the problems show
> up. Heck, I wouldn't know what to do on the i much less on Windows to make
> things truly scalable.
>
> --
> Mike Wills
> http://mikewills.me
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > From: Richard Schoen
> > > Actually going back to the original thread this is a good example
> > > of scalability which in this case happens to be using Windows servers.
> >
> > Adding more servers to a server farm is not my idea of responding to
> > increasing
> > workloads "gracefully".  Throwing more hardware at a performance problem is
> > not
> > my idea of scalability.  It's more a symptom that the system is NOT
> > scalable.
> >  Anybody can add a new server and route requests to it.
> >
> > Of course, Microsoft is working from a different play book.
> >
> > -Nathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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