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CS290F Fall 2006 - UCSB Computer Science - Thorsten von Eicken

The aspects of scalable web infrastructure that are specifically mentioned are listed here with the cases we're going to present to the students as options. I've put question marks where I'm not sure what the options are, if any.

• caching: memcached
• load balancing: apache/mod_proxy, LVS, perlbal, pound
• redundancy: running multiple rails instances behind a load balancer
• back-end databases: mysql, postgresql
• DB fail-over: ???
• security: ???
• monitoring: ???

Other aspects that are also going to be covered, but are not mentioned here include:

• atomicity, consistency, transaction: database transactions
• ...

Created by User:Stefan
Edited by TvE 20:55, 22 September 2006 (PDT)