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cocoafish:

The rise of web services with millions of users like Facebook and Twitter has brought about the term “Internet scale.” At Cocoafish we’ve built a server platform for mobile apps that can automatically handle Internet scale traffic for app developers so they don’t have to put a second of thought or…

techpost:

I just downloaded and installed OrientDB version 1.0rc4 on my Ubuntu server.
It is straight forward to get it up and running but with a few caveats for the Ubuntu user who wants to have Orientdb running at system startup.

If you haven’t heard of OrientDB before, please checkout the …

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Tony Bain:

What is best?  Well that comes down to the resulting complexity, cost, performance and other trade-offs.  Trade-offs are key as there are almost always significant concessions to be made as you scale up.

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So what is my point? Well I guess what I am saying is physical scalability is of course an important consideration in determining what is best. But it is only one side of the coin. What it “costs” you in terms of complexity, actual dollars, performance, flexibility, availability, consistency etc, etc are all important too. And these are often relative, what is complex for you may not be complex for someone else.

I concur—a long time ago I wrote: Complexity is a dimension of scalability.

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