Opinion: The delicate art of enterprise scaling
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| Beau Butler is an open-source design generalist working for Asterisk, in
| Auckland, and is experienced in scaling. He says that “by far the biggest
| aspect is the proper design of the application itself. Trying to retrofit
| scalability, cluster or grid models to an existing application is almost
| always doomed to failure – or at least [is] very inefficient.”
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| Asterisk engineers, who deploy their own Linux server derivative, are well
| aware that tuning an application is highly dependent on the proper tuning of
| the underlying operating system.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/38789BF0D8F1D686CC2573560013449F
Related:
How scalable is Open Source?
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| Open source software provides both benefits and challenges to
| organizations of all sizes. Properly chosen and deployed, open
| source operating systems and applications can scale to meet
| almost any need in both the server and desktop space.
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http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6144487.html
Utility Computing + SOA: Realizing the combined benefits of Amazon EC2 and
Oracle SOA Suite 10g
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| Amazon EC2 is a massive farm of Linux servers at your fingertips. It
| enables you to bring up a single server or many server instances--all
| installed with preconfigured Linux images--with a single command. You
| can use pre-packed Linux images provided by EC2 (public images
| currently available include Apache and MySQL) or build brand new
| images and upload them to Amazon S3, a flexible and inexpensive
| storage service.
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http://www.softwaremag.com/L.cfm?doc=1030-3/2007
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