Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.

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Open Grid Engine or Akka/Something more fault tolerant?

My use case is that I have a pipeline of independent, stand alone programs, that I want to execute in a certain order on specific pieces of data that are output from previous pipeline stages. The ...
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Is OpenStack suitable as a fault tolerant DB host?

I am trying to design a fault tolerant DB cluster (schema does not matter) that would not require much maintenance. After looking at almost everything from MySQL to MongoDB to HBase I still find that ...
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How to implement a distributed proxy with quotas?

I'm in the process of developing a scalable proxy (Linux/C/C++, Nginx modules or custom HTTP server) handling incoming HTTP requests, and re-routing them to others locations based on parameters ...