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Re: how would you scale a cake app?

by Langdon Stevenson :: Rate this Message:

It's an interesting question. I am working on an application that (if
it works out for the client) may grow to support thousands of users with
requirements for high availability.

If it ever grows that far, then I expect that we will need to redevelop
at least some parts of the application .

For me, the first step (to a small cluster) would be to hive off the
database onto a cluster of three to five servers. DB access on this
system is heavy, so that will be the likely first bottleneck.

After that, I am not sure. I think that I would likely just replicate
the entire application across multiple web servers, and hand out the
requests in a round robin to the web servers.

I would be very interested to hear anyone else's thoughts on this too.
Does the development team have any recommendations about the best
approach to scaling up a site?

Regards,
Langdon

keymaster wrote:

>
> .. just dreaming, but..
>
> If one wanted to use cake to build an app which is scalable to the
> extreme, ie. flickr.com or yourtube.com or myspace.com, how would you
> do it?
>
> Would you just separate out the db server and replicate the rest on
> identical nodes in a cluster? Would you break up the app into view
> servers, controller servers, and model servers?
>
> Imagine you were tasked with building one of these systems, what system
> architecture would you have?

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