Nati Shalom’s Blog: Why most large-scale Web sites are not written in Java
…similar solutions for addressing the scalability challenges:
On the Data Tier we see the following:
1. Adding a caching layer to take advantage of memory resources availability and reduce I/O overhead
2. Moving from a database-centric approach to partitioning, aka shards
On the Business Logic Tier:
3. Adding [...]

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ASPs: The Integration Challenge
The main problem with performance when using the APIs provided by ASPs is the per-call overhead. The overhead comes from latency over the Internet, transmission time, marshalling (xml/SOAP) requests on the client side and responses on the ASP side, un-marshalling (xml/SOAP) requests on the ASP side and responses on the client side, [...]

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