Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 01/06/08 19:36

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:17:45 -0800 (PST), faulkes
<michael.behrens@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jan 6, 1:39 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> And programs won't fail if they've been properly designed and tested.
>> I'm not saying they're going to be perfect. There's no such thing.
>> However, a proper development process will keep them from dying.
>
>Apparently you've never given something to a user to play with.
>
>>
>> > You can design an app perfectly to support 1 million users but if you
>> > only have
>> > a dialup connection, it won't do you much good. Scalability covers
>> > everything
>> > not only from the code perspective but down to your network
>> > perspective (lb's,
>> > reverse caching, memcache, redundant bandwidth, redundant servers,
>> > etc)
>>
>> But the app is the hardest to change. It's much easier to change from a
>> dialup connection to a T-3, for instance.
>
>Nobody is saying don't code well or don't follow best practices or
>have
>procedures in place. As stated, scalability is not single faceted and
>the dirth of apps dying on Black Friday or any given successful launch
>are
>proof positive of it isn't.
>
>> >http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tune-lamp-1/#resources
>> >http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tune-lamp-2.html?ca...
>> >http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-fastapps2/
>>
>>
>> Those are good for what they say. But they're by no means complete.
>> There is a lot more to scaling, even on a single server.
>>
>
>As stated, they are a start, which is far better than you offered. So
>apart
>from snide remarks and a complete failure to actually provide
>something useful,
>do you actually have anything to add?
>
>> So your answer is telling him to google? Gee, can't you do better than
>> that?
>
>Yes, I refer you to the almighty fact that you didn't give him a
>nickels
>worth of url he could so much as peruse.
>
>Added that given how trivial it is once you get started to google for
>the rest,
>he shouldn't have too much of a problem and even be able to come back
>here and
>ask questions if he needs.
>
>Or he could hire me.

Looks like Jerry's gonna start calling you a troll and a fraud too.
He's having a very bad week in that respect.
--
gburnore at DataBasix dot Com
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