Web 2.0 Expo - Scaling Web Apps

Cal Henderson (whose book I was reading on the plane) is doing a great session on scaling web apps.

The place is so packed, people are sitting on the floor. This is fairly technical but it’s so much great information, it’s right up my alley…

scaling web apps

The key to HA is to avoid SPOFS…

Share nothing, complete sessions in cookies (with secret)…

Cached schemes and load balancing tactics (memcached, whackamole). Master/Master, no incremental ids for hot/hot, design schemas to avoid collisions (hashing users to servers).

Tags:

 

Trackbacks

(Trackback URL)

close Reblog this comment
blog comments powered by Disqus