Think big when deploying your web app

The current trend on web applications are centered on the user, the user's (generated) content, and collaboration (sharing and communication) between the users. This is referred to as Web 2.0-type of web apps. Implicit here are highly-available web applications servicing many, many concurrent users. Why not think big when deploying your Web 2.0 app? You … Read more

Infrastructure and capacity planning

When you hear the word “(information) infrastructure”… what comes to mind? Your servers, routers and switches, and networks? What about software and dependencies to other applications, and related Service Level Agreements (SLAs)? It is all of that. Plus it is people too, and the instructions for those people (procedures) about the infrastructure itself. When it … Read more