Interesting reading, agree completely on the relativity of ’scalable’. I am currently working on a system with traffic growing an order of magnitude every year, and the business wants a system to last 3 years …

Terracotta is high on my list as a possible for simplifying parts of the system and its good to hear your experiences with it.

Glen

You are right, it’s all relative. 1.3m messages is a significant amount of business for what my company does. Very significant. Naturally, I can’t divulge the company secrets, but if 1.3m messages represents $X millions of dollars of business, then 1 billion messages would represent a hundred-fold increase in business for us. That’d bring us to the multi-billion dollar range. I think I can say confidently on behalf of my company that we’re ready for that challenge.

Mark

Thanks for sharing, and good luck with Terracotta. I’ve been taking a look at their technology and find it interesting, but haven’t yet found the right fit for my environment. I like to see what kinds of problems people are solving with it….

BTW, there is a real truth in your blog today– 1.5M messages a weekend is not super high for some lines of business. (Case in point: I’m currently working with an application that hopes to process maybe 1 BILLION database rows in a short number of hours.) We’re an oddball case, but it does demonstrate the point you made– ’scalable’ is relative to your business problem.

Good luck, and thanks again for posting info on your environment. Please share as you go, we can all learn from each other.

Rick

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