[Zope] Scaling problems, or something else?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 16 May 2007, at 16:52, Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:24:56PM -0500, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>> There's a difference between scaling and making something faster. ZEO
>> makes a single instance slower, right. But you can deal with more
>> requests concurrently using ZEO. That's what I consider "scaling".
>
> Agreed.  But at the same time, I don't think it makes sense to keep
> deploying more and more badly tuned instances. That's what I consider
> "blind shotgun scaling" :) You need to scale, but you also need to
> tune - and you need to be pragmatic about which is the appropriate
> approach at any given point in time.

My perspective is always high-traffic systems. I never even consider  
small sites with few hits, for which ZEO won't do much. I have a  
blind spot for those ;)

jens


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