My last gig was at an internet entertainment company which survived for
about a year, before succumbing to the dot-com collapse of 2000. We used CF
and Oracle on NT to run our site, which averaged about 250,000 page views
(not hits!, but fully rendered pages, usually with a high percentage of
dynamic content) per day using 5 PC servers (including the one running
Oracle). We had a foundry serveriron load balancing box in front of the
webservers.
Not only was the site highly dynamic (for example our homepage was emitted
via a homegrown publishing system which allowed the editorial staff to
instantly update information via web forms) but we also tracked every
impression and click of these items, and cookied every user that hit the
site (numbering in the millions). We built multimedia widgets with CF that
supported flash, windows media, realplayer and quicktime, as we did a lot of
streaming media stuff. Oh yeah, we also built our own advertising system
along the same lines, which handled banners and rich media ads.
We did have peaks where the site got a little slow, and performance and
stability issues with CF on NT, and had to work with their consulting group
to get it tuned. I wasn't particularly happy with NT, and probably would
have moved everything to Linux as time went on, which is now a viable CF
option that wasn't really there when we started.
In terms of scalability, using this mixture we could have gone on adding PC
webservers whenever we needed to, but at our current load, were more than
capable of keeping up the load, even though we were extensively logging
activity in the database.
I think the iterative quality and benefit of a tag based product really cuts
time to market, and this is something that should be considered. In our
case our entire business and enterprise was run on this combination of
technology. From a technology standpoint our company was probably 85%
successful, and we were able to provide solutions in a short amount of time
that would have taken far longer using many of the alternative technologies
I've used in the past.
With the mix of engineers, web designers and web developers, the ability to
create a rich set of custom tags that were easy for the designers to use and
understand. Comparing that with something like jsp, which i've been using
recently, and we simply wouldn't consider trying to do some of the things
with jsp that we regularly did with CF.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:11 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions
Discuss...
We are in the process of doing presentations on various technologies and I
really ripped into Oracle WebDB the other week and expect them to be
gunning for me. I'm doing a presentation on CF, including the new CF5
features.
In lunch today this came up, that CF was not suitable for Enterprise
Solutions (sheesh).
I also want to emphasise speed of development during the presentation.
So what I need is links, examples, papers, the lot.
Best Regards,
Adam Reynolds
ColdFusion Web Developer
ISMG Development, Unilever
London
( +44 20 7822 5450 (ext 5450)
m: +44 7973 386620
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