Thomas Hartman | 5 Oct 22:43

Help me prove macid can scale! (Macid stress tests results for happs-tutorial toy job board disappointing so far.)

From: tphyahoo <thomashartm...@googlemail.com>
Subject: Help me prove macid can scale! (Macid stress tests results
for happs-tutorial toy job board disappointing so far.)
To: HAppS

HAppS is a new, relatively unproven technology.

So I am asking myself this question. Will HAppS allow me to scale the
toy job board I created for happs-tutorial into a high-volume, high
concurrency, large-user count type job board? You know, the kind that
might make money?

I have done some preliminary testing to answer this question, and so
far the results have been disappointing.

I am hoping that I am doing something wrong, and that there is a way
of using macid effectively for more than just toy applications. If
there are solution for the problems I'm experiencing I will definitely
be integrating this knowledge into the tutorial, so stay tuned.

I am seeking feedback from HAppS experts and educated users on the
following questions:

    * Is building a heavy duty website like monster.com in HAppS a
realistic goal -- say, in the next twelve months?
    * Are there certain types of web apps that are unlikely to work
well with the HAppS web architecture?
    * Are there changes I can make to my toy app's architecture -- be
it data structures, buying new hardware, whatever -- that will enable
me to get good performance against the stress test described below and
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Jason Dusek | 6 Oct 00:57

Re: Help me prove macid can scale! (Macid stress tests results for happs-tutorial toy job board disappointing so far.)

  I don't want to be contrarian, but I guess I can't help
  myself. Does MACID have anything to say about failover and
  replication? Isn't that more important than volume?

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_jsn
Duncan Coutts | 6 Oct 04:16
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Re: Help me prove macid can scale! (Macid stress tests results for happs-tutorial toy job board disappointing so far.)

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:57 -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:
> I don't want to be contrarian, but I guess I can't help
>   myself. Does MACID have anything to say about failover and
>   replication? Isn't that more important than volume?

HAppS does failover and replication within a cluster. They're working on
sharding, but that's a good deal harder.

Duncan
Thomas Hartman | 6 Oct 13:20

Re: Help me prove macid can scale! (Macid stress tests results for happs-tutorial toy job board disappointing so far.)

There's a thread at happs group about this with good answers

http://groups.google.com/group/HAppS/browse_thread/thread/1031809dca26f349

My top post should probably have been a cc, apologies.

Looks pretty likely that the issues are solvable. Grokking the answers now.

thomas.

2008/10/6 Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts <at> worc.ox.ac.uk>:
> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 15:57 -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:
>> I don't want to be contrarian, but I guess I can't help
>>   myself. Does MACID have anything to say about failover and
>>   replication? Isn't that more important than volume?
>
> HAppS does failover and replication within a cluster. They're working on
> sharding, but that's a good deal harder.
>
> Duncan
>
>

Gmane