"Scalable applications scale in scaleable environments."
That's my mantra.
So you have a great OS... congrats... but your site is down... why?
You have just one web server ... it died.
You have just one data server ... it died.
You have just one network ... it's down.
You have two ISPs ... using the same last mile local loop ... which a
backhoe just took out ... service resumes in two days.
You just deployed your content to your whole web farm ... except for the
server your network engineer just found was offline and put in without
telling you ... congrats, your code is now out of sync ... but the server's
are fast :)
Your application runs tremendously fast ... until you put into production
and find that someone just did a SQL UPDATE command on the whole table and
now has an exclusive lock. Your CF code is sitting there waiting... you
only set a few simultaneous CF connections... they're all waiting... as are
your customers. The server appears to have died... but it isn't. Can you
fix this in time? How?
This isn't intended to be negative... it's intended to show that it really
doesn't matter which of each of these is "the best"... the question is
whether you've designed your environment to scale and handle ALL of these
issues. You can be "THE BEST" at one, but you could still "die" by
overlooking the other ideas.
Which OS is best? The one that is running an environment that handles all
the questions above.
Not sure how to answer these questions? Don't panic. Most people aren't.
I'm trying to collect the answers at http://doug.nottage.com/cf I'm writing
as fast as I can but if you don't find what you want, e-mail me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll see what I can do.
Good luck!!!
--Doug
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