[Seaside] I need success stories
Dale Henrichs
dale.henrichs at gemstone.com
Fri Feb 22 17:30:11 UTC 2008
Jeffrey Straszheim wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I almost have a business partner convinced to give Seaside a try for
> an upcoming web project. However, although I love the ideas behind
> the technology, and I would love to use Smalltalk on a real paying
> gig, I have a deep fear that if we get heavy traffic the system
> wouldn't keep up.
>
> So, does anyone on this list have experience using Seaside in a high
> traffic scenario. I'm talking 200+ hits per second at least. How did
> it handle the load? What sort of hardware did you choose? What load
> balancing? What database?
>
>
Jeffrey,
We've benchmarked Seaside running in GemStone/S on a 4 core Linux box at
230 requests/second. The details of the benchmark are published at
http://gemstonesoup.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/scaling-seaside-with-gemstones.
We don't have any customers running Seaside applications at those rates,
but we do have customers that run their GemStone/S applications at
commit rates significantly above 2000 commits per second. With GemStone
Seaside, we do a commit per request so there is a direct correlation
between http request rate and commit rate.
Supporting request rates in the 200+ requests/second range is definitely
feasible, but I don't have a handle on the hardware requirements at this
point in time.
Hope this helps,
Dale
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