BTW what happened with MySpace was not due to CF. It was due to the fact that their code sucked. Their solution was to throw hardware at it. I was at one CFUnited several years ago where the MySpace development team gave a preso on their system. In the Q&A session afterwards they were verbally ripped apart over the bad code. When they moved over to BlueDragon.Net the code problems increased. So in the end CF just became a convenient scapegoat to hide some bad coding practices etc.
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:53 PM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering how much use CF can really handle either as a server > product or middleware. I am not talking about situations where throwing > hardware at performance issues can get one by, but to the point where > choosing the right middleware/application backend software can make or > break an application. > > Facebook, for example. Throwing hardware at something like Facebook is > not going to help performance issues in the software. Facebook is built > using PHP, but they do some fancy compiling on the PHP to make it > faster. Their backend is also a bit more complex than a MSSQL server farm. > > Twitter abandoned Ruby on Rails for its server side processing because > Rails couldn't keep up. > > I know MySpace was using CF for a while, but CF was unfairly blamed for > MySpace's reliability problems, so it isn't a good measuring stick. > > Can ColdFusion run something like Facebook/Twitter, or would > inefficiencies stack up to make it completely unworkable no matter the > scale of the hardware? > > I looked for case studies on google but most that looked promising > either returned 404s or Service Unavailable messages. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:350435 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
