Op dinsdag 12 september 2006 18:22, schreef John Almberg: <snip> > As far as requirements for the server are concerned, what I'm mainly > concerned about is stability and scalability, as this application must > potentially support lots of simultaneous users. The actual number will > depend on the market, so we need to be able to start small and grow > arbitrarily large. I'm a bit worried about that requirement, to be honest.
You might want to take a look at ejabberd: http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/docs/features.pdf ejabberd is written in Erlang, as this unknown language might scare your manager, I've here a list of useful Erlang-related links: * A very recent deployment at the metro of Lyon, France (quote: "The customer was /very/ surprised with this new software that 'never crashed once'.": http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?t=6229 * From the same poster, how he convinced his boss: http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?t=6253 * Why Erlang Is a Great Language for Concurrent Programming: http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2006/08/16/why-erlang-is-a-great-language-for-concurrent-programming * Next article explains the future importancy of concurrency in software: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm * "A functional program is ready for concurrency without any further modifications." (Erlang is a functional language): http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html * Erlang Style Concurrency: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/concurrency.html * Erlang Hot Code Swapping -> Hacking Nirvana: http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2006/06/22/erlang-hot-code-swapping-hacking-nirvana * The must-read Phd thesis of Joe Amstrong: http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf * Ericsson's Biggest PR Blunder: Forgetting to Tell Us That Erlang Programming Is FUN: http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2006/08/24/ericssons-biggest-pr-blunder-forgetting-to-tell-us-that-erlang-programming-is-fun This blog entry also might interest you if you would consider to deploy a large ejabberd installation with less memory: http://www.planeta.toliman.pl/?p=101 -- Mvg, Sander Devrieze. xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ejabberd, the expandable Jabber daemon. -- http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/
