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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Store scores for players and produce a high score list
This question is derived from an interview question that I got for a job I was declined. I have asked for code review for my solution at the dedicated Stack Exchange site ...
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Even distribution through a chain of resources
I'm working on an algorithm which routes tasks through a chain of distributed resources based on a hash (or random number).
For example, say you have 10 gateways into a service which distribute tasks ...
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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 having coupled hosting in one platform better than having decoupled hosting?
Recently I have been thinking of converting some ideas into apps with couple of like minded friends. Our app will have an module, where users must include an instant messaging.
The requirement for ...
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UDP distributing/sharding methods
Currently I'm sending UDP messages to a server which handles and processes the message. To make the processing more scalable, I'd like to have some sort of autoscaling mechanism for the receiving ...
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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 ...
