Chapter 14. Scalability and the Portal
What happens if you build the best portal ever, and hundreds, thousands, or millions of people flock to it day after day to get the information for which they hunger? This is precisely the problem we all seek, the reason this book was written, and the motivation for your making it all the way to the final chapter. If the portal cannot support the volume of its users or provide the performance they expect, it will fail. Scalability is a way to describe the impact of rising traffic, users, data volume, transactions, and other metrics on the performance of the portal.
High availability is the close companion of scalability. An infrastructure that supports a large number of users and high volume of transactions ...
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