[OOTB-distro] Clustering/load balancing Alfresco Commmunity

[Torben Lauritzen]

On 07/05/2015, at 09.15, Andreas Steffan <a.steffan at contentreich.de> wrote:

> On 05/07/2015 09:00 AM, Torben Lauritzen wrote:
>>> Sorry, but I don't buy the "The EE people are doing this for good
>>> reason" argument. :) The feature came along with the EE they bought.
>>> Why not make use of it when it comes at no additional cost?
>>> 
>> 
>> Why make use of it, if it is not necessary?
> 
> Because it ships working out of the box and people tell you its awesome.  ;)
> 
>> 
>>> I am sure Alfresco Inc. has a serious need this feature at cloud
>>> scale. But other than that?
>>> 
>>> Speaking about scale, you might want to check out how the SO guys are
>>> doing it :
>>> http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-update-560m-pageviews-a-month-25-servers-and-i.html
>>> . Has nothing to do with Alfresco, but shows that you can get very
>>> far by just scaling up vertically.
>>> 
>> 
>> That is exactly the point! With enough money for hardware and a
>> specialized application, you can get very far… But we have the
>> opposite situation: It needs to run on relatively cheap hardware and
>> it is a very generic and large application. 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Oh, come on. Hardware is dirt cheap.

Marie Antoinette?

> Building up a distributed
> transactional cache is most likely way more expensive.
> 

It only needs to be done once, and we could try to do it as a project under the Order of the Bee. It is just a bit hard getting past the initial naysayers..

> Does the customer really dictate what hardware you must use?
> 

Why use excessive hardware, if you can do the same with less?

Cheers,
Torben


> cheers
> Andreas
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