[FOWA 2009]: Practical Advice for Managing the Growth of your Web App

Chris Lea (Virb)

Well, don’t we all hope we will run into this problem? :-)

  • «We need to build this thing so it’s efficient and scalable» is what all engineers keep saying.
  • Efficiency != Scalability
  • If your app grows it will eventually come to it’s limits against something (CPU, DB, Disk, etc)
  • Scalability = A scalable system where you can overcome an I/O obstacle with money.
  • Efficieny = the costs of scaling are small.
  • Working on scalability is almost always beneficial – working on efficieny is sometimes beneficial.
  • 14 Rules for faster-loading websites
  • Smaller firms gotta focus more on scalability, bigger ones on efficiency

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02.10.2009 · Developement, Startup, Web

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