[OOTB-distro] Clustering/load balancing Alfresco Commmunity

[Torben Lauritzen]

Hi Andreas.

On 04/05/2015, at 12.43, Andreas Steffan <a.steffan at contentreich.de> wrote:

> at the end of the day, I think this is most likely not worth the effort.
> 
> If its performance you are after:  Assuming you investigated and 
> understand bottlenecks/pain points, did you already push code,
> system-configuration and hardware to the limits?
> 
> You may also improve the situation performance- and availability wise
> setting up some more nodes even when they  are not really aware of each
> other.
> 
> If you end up coming to the conclusion that serious clustering code is
> what you need, I think you are at a scale where it is fair and maybe
> even the cheapest way to go for EE.
> 

We are not Alfresco Partners, and it is not likely to happen. And I think it is the wrong way to think about the Community edition! I think the Community edition should be a real Open Source alternative to Alfresco Enterprise.

> If you really want to build this yourself, you might want to check out
> http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/10/17/1745
> 

I did already read that, but thanks.

Cheers,
Torben


> cheers
> Andreas
> 
> On 05/04/2015 11:48 AM, Torben Lauritzen wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> 
>> At the company where I work, we are reaching a point, where our customers running Alfresco Community are so large, that they need some kind of clustering and load balancing. I have not had deep technical thoughts about this yet, but I am sure it would be a valuable addition to the Community edition, and thus some of you might also want to contribute - at least with technical advice, but hopefully helping with the implementation.
>> 
>> Please let me know what you think about it, and how we can proceed (if you think it has any value).
>> 
>> By the way, Alfresco (the company) might not be that pleased if we succeed, so I doubt woking on this will earn you a free Summit ticket ;-)
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Torben Lauritzen
>> Magenta Aps
>> Denmark
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