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How Sears Could Have Used the Cloud to Stay Available Black Friday

The prediction of the death of online shopping this holiday season were, apparently, greatly exaggerated. As it's been reported, Sears, along with several other well known retailers, were victims of ...
Published Dec 03, 2008
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Lori_MacVittie
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Dec 04, 2008
@Ari

 

 

Regarding your point 1: aren't you going to share what it was?? Shame on you for piquing our interest and not sharing! :-)

 

 

Regarding I/O bottlenecking: Amen. I agree that the JMS/middleware/database layers are the real bottlenecks in most high volume situations. It's always been a bit surprising that database caching solutions never made an impact on the market as they really had an interesting solution to the problem that could certainly alleviate some (not all) of the problems associated with these layers of the app infrastructure.