{"id":71,"date":"2010-10-29T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-10-29T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T16:49:54","slug":"questions-regarding-website-scalability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/2010\/10\/29\/questions-regarding-website-scalability\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions Regarding Website Scalability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following statements and questions are merely random thoughts that came up during postmortem discussions about our efforts to support March Madness traffic.\u00a0 These represent the questions I took with me to HighEdWeb 2010 and will be questions we continually revisit as we plan for March 2011.\u00a0 I just wanted to capture these ideas somewhere I could find them again.\u00a0 Also, by posting them here, I thought perhaps a comment thread may emerge, sparking new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about scaling our website, servers, content, etc.\u00a0 Ideally, we need to break the entire puzzle into generic pieces, but how?\u00a0 What is the structure of this particular problem?\u00a0 Content?\u00a0 Servers?\u00a0 How do we define &#8220;flexibility&#8221; and &#8220;scalability?&#8221;\u00a0 Is there a way to define the problem, and its pieces, in a generic fashion so that we can see how those pieces fit &#8230; regardless of specific technologies?\u00a0 An &#8220;agnostic&#8221; method of looking at this issue.\u00a0 VMware limits us to scalability.\u00a0 A mainframe would be bigger.\u00a0 What is best way to deal with THIS type of traffic?\u00a0 We need to DEFINE the bottleneck.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have the money to scale everything.\u00a0 Nor do we really WANT to scale EVERYTHING.\u00a0 So, which pieces are PRIORITY for scalability?\u00a0 Internal vs. external?\u00a0 Architectures?\u00a0 And, what about REAL TIME analytics?\u00a0 Are there business types w\/ similar business piques\/spikes?\u00a0 ANY event could trigger a spike in traffic?<\/p>\n<p>Do we need a more detailed Visio diagram of network architecture to evaluate?\u00a0 Are there infrastructure analysis tools?\u00a0 Open source load analysis tools?\u00a0 How did webSnap affect the overall picture?\u00a0 We had URL rewrite scripts in place that had to of affected processing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Next Steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brain dump with Chris (What is REALLY happening on TOAD?) &#8211; David\/Chris\/Tim<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade TOAD &#8211; David\/Chris\/Tim<\/li>\n<li>Load balancing tools &#8211; Nate<\/li>\n<li>Walk David through presentation???<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following statements and questions are merely random thoughts that came up during postmortem discussions about our efforts to support March Madness traffic.\u00a0 These represent the questions I took with me to HighEdWeb 2010 and will be questions we continually revisit as we plan for March 2011.\u00a0 I just wanted to capture these ideas somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/timroe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}