Horizontally scaling systems (Scale out)

September 2, 2016 adminArchitecture, horizontal scaling, Scale out, Scaling, System designLeave a comment

Just thought to record the horizontal scaling options I came across so far.

Connected and stateless – Requests in this scenario are synchronous (connected), meaning request is processed immediately and response served. Till then connection to kept open. Servers are

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Achieving scale and performance

March 19, 2016 adminPerformance engineering, Scale out, ScalingLeave a comment

Scale and performance is every engineer’s problem. Scale is not same as performance though related.

Performance – Task runs on a thread and assigned to a CPU core. How fast it run depends on the clock speed and the code.

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AEM and shared file systems (example – EFS) in cloud

March 9, 2016March 9, 2016 adminAEM, AWS, EFS, ObjectiveFS, Scale out, Scaling, Shared file system, Thought leadershipLeave a comment

Bumped on the shared file system service provided by AWS which they call as Elastic File System (EFS). EFS is more like a file system in a network mounted on multiple compute (EC2) instances. All the compute instances can read … read the rest.