Re: WebObjects scalability question - WOSession?
Re: WebObjects scalability question - WOSession?
- Subject: Re: WebObjects scalability question - WOSession?
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:35:03 -0500
On 2010-11-15, at 7:09 PM, Ian Joyner wrote:
> (Not that I'm doing any WO these days, but I still like to follow.)
>
> One thing that has always worried me about scalability is keeping the per user "application state" on the server in WOSession. Knowing more about REST now, this is very unrestful and not stateless, which means will not scale.
I don't see why something being unrestful and not stateless automatically equates to not being able to scale. Perhaps you could explain.
> How is this problem dealt with these days? WOnder?
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
> On 16 Nov 2010, at 03:43, Greg Lappen wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Based on using WO for the last 7 years, I have observed a couple of things that seem to be a performance bottleneck in WebObjects. I know that Apple uses WebObjects on a large scale for iTunes and ecommerce, so there must be solutions to these.
>>
>> #1 - Only one thread can be processing at once. I seem to recall that this is a limit in EnterpriseObjects but it's been a while.
>>
>> #2 - EnterpriseObjects caches every object from the database.
>>
>> With that being said, how can you horizontally scale your application layer? If you setup more instances of your app, they each have their own caches, which will be out of sync with each other. Is there a commonly used framework for doing distributed cache management? And is it possible to make your applications multithreaded so page requests can be processed concurrently?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Greg
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