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Oct
4
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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 parallelization semantics to the application tier (e.g., MapReduce)
4. Moving to scale-out application models to achieve linear scalability
5. Moving away from the classic two-phase commit and …
Jul
4
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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, and authentication/authorization checking and other overhead at the ASP.
In accessing Salesforce.com and CRM OnDemand (both of these ASPs are located in North America, as are …