Comments on: Call Me Pedantic - What Exactly IS Scalability? http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2006/01/16/what-exactly-is-scalability/ Jing Xue's Weblog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:34:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Cameron Purdy http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2006/01/16/what-exactly-is-scalability/comment-page-1/#comment-12515 Cameron Purdy Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:04:32 +0000 http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/?p=75#comment-12515 > So scalability is about performance - the capability to handle large volume of traffic, as far as web applications go. There are no "totally agreed upon" definitions, but I use these: Performance (a.k.a. speed) is about response time. Scalability is about being able to handle larger volumes of traffic without degrading performance. Peace. > So scalability is about performance - the capability to handle large volume of traffic, as far as web applications go.

There are no “totally agreed upon” definitions, but I use these:

Performance (a.k.a. speed) is about response time.

Scalability is about being able to handle larger volumes of traffic without degrading performance.

Peace.

]]> By: sampa : colin’s blog » Spring is Most Certainly Designed for Scalability http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2006/01/16/what-exactly-is-scalability/comment-page-1/#comment-187 sampa : colin’s blog » Spring is Most Certainly Designed for Scalability Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:20:52 +0000 http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/?p=75#comment-187 [...] Some more comments on this in Call Me Pedantic - What Exactly IS Scalability? and What Is Clustering About – An answer to Spring is not d esigned for scalability.   [...] [...] Some more comments on this in Call Me Pedantic - What Exactly IS Scalability? and What Is Clustering About – An answer to Spring is not d esigned for scalability.   [...]

]]> By: Jing Xue http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2006/01/16/what-exactly-is-scalability/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Jing Xue Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:47:16 +0000 http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/?p=75#comment-186 LOL, thanks. LOL, thanks.

]]> By: David Herron http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2006/01/16/what-exactly-is-scalability/comment-page-1/#comment-185 David Herron Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:21:14 +0000 http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/?p=75#comment-185 Call me pedantic, but I think your title on this post is mispeled. Call me pedantic, but I think your title on this post is mispeled.

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