Horizontal and vertical scalability

Hi people! Let’s talk a little about systems architecture. Specially about scalability. First of all: do you know what scalability is? Accordingly to the book “Characteristics of scalability and their impact on performance”, scalability is the “capability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged … Read more

Are there different types of clusters?

In my last post “How to Build an Apache TomEE cluster” we saw how easy and fast is to deploy your application in a cluster and take all its advantages. It’s interesting to keep in mind we have basically two different types of clusters. Let’s see them.   Dynamic Discovery In a Dynamic Discovery cluster each … Read more

Blogging course

I have never thought it would exist a thing like a blogging course. I always seen blogging as an empirical thing, specially for technical guys like me (though I always love to write). Then someday somebody told me: “Do you want to create a blog? So check this site…”: http://simpleprogrammer.com/ This person told me if … Read more