Scaling a website up to the size of a Twitter or a Facebook brings its own set of problems. These problems aren’t always like those that crop up in moderately large sites — they’re unique to these massive, hyperscale systems. That’s partly because IT administrators and managers have to rely on new and sometimes emerging solutions to manage megasites, as traditional applications and tools can’t handle jobs on that scale, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld.
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Hyperscaling Without Hyperventilating
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 23, 2010 05:00 AMScaling a website up to the size of a Twitter or a Facebook brings its own set of problems. These problems aren’t always like those that crop up in moderately large sites — they’re unique to these massive, hyperscale systems. That’s partly because IT administrators and managers have to rely on new and sometimes emerging solutions to manage megasites, as traditional applications and tools can’t handle jobs on that scale, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld.