Splitting the code got nothing to do with application scalability. As you mentioned split the code to plug-ins and make some of them open source to gain community contribution. Then scale the application with common solutions like clusters, database replications etc.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Marco B <beinbrec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > we have a photo selling/sharing web project. Our customers get a > personal portfolio page and can sell their photography. > Because of an increasing amount of users, we are planning to add some > more web servers. > > Right now we have one big cake application with the tasks split into > different controllers. > With regard to scalability (scale service delivery and increase the > number of developers) and the option to outsource parts of the > development, without giving access to the whole code, we plan to split > our project into smaller parts/services. > > The Services could be split into following groups: > - static info pages of our project > - administration interface / customer area > - photoupload > - scaling/cropping/converting photos > - web pages of our customers with their galleries > > Now I have three options: > > 1) keeping everything in one application with different controllers. > 2) put every service in a individual cake app (some models can be > shared with a common directory) > 3) configure every service to be a plugin > > How would you split the cake-application? Which strategy would you > apply? > > Thanks, > Marco > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
