Re: Web Service

"Sudhir Kamatkar" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.ajug.members
Organization Samarth Technologies, Inc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Summers. Yes, we do have to write to the database.
Vert.x looks interesting. Will certainly do more research on this.
Didn't understand what you meant by ' And actually reading up on Joyent
shows me why I may be quite off for my suggestions...'

Best Regards,
 
Sudhir 
-----Original Message-----
From: Summers Pittman [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 9:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] Web Service

On Wed 03 Jul 2013 09:06:55 AM EDT, Summers Pittman wrote:
> On 07/03/2013 08:35 AM, Sudhir Kamatkar wrote:
>>
>> Friends,
>>
>> We are working on a web service to be built. Key is there could be 
>> bursts of up to 10,000 concurrent requests/transactions during 
>> certain times of the day. Web service itself is relatively straight 
>> forward which involves getting 4-5 fields of information (text &
>> numbers) from the requesters (mobile and other devices) and then 
>> fetching data from the database and performing simple calculations 
>> and sending results back.
>>
>> What technologies would you suggest for better performance, 
>> scalability, ease of writing code/rning curve (for Java developer) 
>> and stability?  Which cloud provider would you recommend?
>>
>> One thought was to use  node.js, akka for Java, Redisl, ngnix and 
>> deploy in Joyent. Does anyone have experience with these 
>> technologies? Our concerns are - Is this stack too bleeding edge, 
>> stability of code (since they have sub 0.x versions), learning curve 
>> for Java developer, too many moving parts for administration, 
>> troubleshooting and testing?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help.
>>
>> Sudhir
>>
> If you don't have to write to the database and can predict when 
> traffic bursts happen why not use EC2 to host the project and spin up 
> more instances?
>
> If you are worried about learning curves for Java you might want to 
> research vert.x instead of node.js.
>
> I can't actually speak to any of the other techs.
And actually reading up on Joyent shows me why I may be quite off for my
suggestions...
>>
>>
>>
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