[Seaside] Seaside Scaling - How successful?

[Sebastian Sastre]

Hi Rich,

Good to know Seaside is being evaluated for more high load projects.
We have no numbers because we are still in development of the app but you may
found interesting the architecture. We have made the app so it can run in worker
images without points of contention. Was made that way to allow smooth scaling
from 1 to N hosts tailoring our load demand.

	cheers,

Sebastian Sastre

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> [mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En nombre de Rich
> Enviado el: Lunes, 18 de Agosto de 2008 15:33
> Para: seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Asunto: [Seaside] Seaside Scaling - How successful?
> 
> I've been looking for a framework that will grow with my company's  
> projected online growth rate and Seaside looks very interesting.  We  
> developed a Java based web site for a beta product, but I'm 
> not happy  
> with the results or the amount of code/time required to make things  
> work with Java.  I'm looking for something that will have a faster  
> implementation and also scale well as we grow.  I stumbled across  
> Seaside on Blog post and thought I'd take a look.  Seaside 
> looks like  
> it has some very nice features and I've been spending the 
> last couple  
> of days doing some of the tutorials and watching several of the "Why  
> Seaside" talks.  Thanks to your community for posting those.
> 
> I do have some reservations about Seaside and I'm hoping that the  
> members of this list can point me in the right direction for the  
> answers or have some of their own success stories.  Here are my  
> concerns at this point in time:
> 
> Scalability - How does one scale Seaside?  I've seen GemStone/S to  
> help with persistence and using Apache for static content.  
> These seem  
> very logical, but I'm still wondering what it takes in hardware to  
> support 1K, 10K and 100K unique visitors per month to a 
> Seaside based  
> site.  I know this will be code dependent, but I'm interested in  
> seeing 1) if its even possible to hit in excess of 100K visitors per  
> month and 2) what it would take from a hardware perspective to hit  
> this number of visitors.
> 
> Memory Requirements - I read in the archives, and I'm betting 
> this is  
> an older pre 2.8 rev memory number, it takes 2M per client for  
> Seaside.  Is this still the case?
> 
> Hosting - What is the best way to host Seaside if you want to use  
> someone else's hardware?  Has anyone implemented an AMI on AWS for  
> hosting?
> 
> Success Stories - Any success stories where a site is servicing in  
> excess of 5K visitors per day using Seaside?  If so, what did 
> it take  
> to get here and would you do it again?  How are you handling  
> persistence?  What is your limit based on current hardware/software?
> 
> Learn Seaside  - What is the best way to learn Seaside for a non- 
> Smalltalk developer?
> 
> 
> Any information you could provide that would help me make this  
> decision would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Rich
> 
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