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Website Scaling, Part 1: What It Means and How to Get There One thing I didn't go into in the first installment in this two-part series -- which is critical -- is how to measure Web scalability. The way you do this in a testing environment is, of course, called "load testing." But what you might not know about load testing is how it relates to Lit...
The stories of websites that fell over and died when they got unexpected traffic are legion. A recent example of what not to do would be Target's introduction of a low-priced Missoni collection. The site attracted so much traffic that Target.com was swamped for several hours on Sept. 13, 2011, leading would-be shoppers to face a cute but frustrating site-down page...
"Build once, run everywhere" has been the goal of many platforms, although most recently, the motto was used for Java. It has rarely been completely true. In Java's case, "build once, test everywhere" was closer to the mark A true universal platform offers many financial benefits: It removes uncertainty about future hardware; extends the applicatio...
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