Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Scaling your Web-Services

Today we have a myriad number of web service with different services to offer . There is eBay and Amazon for e-Commerce , PhotoBucket and Flikr for image sharing , FB and Twitter for social networking etc . Every web service have its own scaling points . Scaling points are those factors which need to be mended to address the scaling concerns . Some of the most common scaling points are :

1. Storage on server/cloud
2. Network bandwidth
3. Server RAM
4. Server I/O
5. Database transactions/sec
6. Application Architecture

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