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High Jump and Limbo
High Jump In scalable systems development it’s all too easy to focus on the highs. The plaudits are there for people who can claim ‘My system can scale to 200 thousand bazillion customers!...
View ArticleFour Features of a Scalable Web Application
I’m often asked how we write scalable web applications. I’ve boiled down the long list of factors we consider to the following four key features. It isn’t an exhaustive list, but any web app missing...
View ArticleScalability: What To Do When Disaster Strikes
It’s happened to the best of us; no matter what scalability plans we put into place, no matter how many horizontally scaled virtual hosts we spin up, no matter how we shard our carefully crafted data,...
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Measure Twice, Cut Once – How To Take Care Of Your Online Application
My mother always told me about the carpenter who would measure twice and cut once. It didn’t make any sense to me as a kid, but I soon understood exactly what she meant the day I built my first set of...
View ArticleSimon’s Top Three Picks from the AWS Cloud for Start-Ups & Developers Event
I attended the Amazon Web Services Cloud for Start-Ups & Developers Event in London today, there were several really useful talks and a nice run through of some of the newer AWS technologies. Here...
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Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
What are horizontal and vertical scaling? And when do you use them? Vertical scaling is adding oomph to the machine that an application is running on. Perhaps your e-commerce site is getting more...
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