Support Forums: Message List - In terms of hyper growth, Scalability Rules! http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sat, 25 May 2013 21:00:46 -0400 Missing Scalability Rule http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62974 Looks like one rule is missing : don't use ORM tools. 

 

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]]> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:11:45 -0400 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:11:45 -0400 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:11:45 -0400 Sep 15, 2011 Vitaly Shevchuc 0 In terms of hyper growth, Scalability Rules! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62974 But many of us is using some ORM tool. When your queries are generated by an ORM you completely solve the first issue: the mapping is done at class level.

...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:27:23 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:27:23 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:27:23 -0400 Sep 14, 2011 alberto gori 1 In terms of hyper growth, Scalability Rules! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62974 I can also speculate that with "select *" one would have to get row values by name, which might involve overhead for getting result set metadata. In contrast, with "select " one can safely get row values by index.

...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:08:26 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:08:26 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:08:26 -0400 Sep 14, 2011 Pavel Grushetzky 0 In terms of hyper growth, Scalability Rules! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62974

All these principles should be documented where possible. For example in Chapter 1 the book sentences that

"select column from table"

is far better then

"select * from table"

respect to...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:35:12 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:31:45 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:35:12 -0400 Sep 14, 2011 JDenman 3 In terms of hyper growth, Scalability Rules! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62974 All these principles should be documented where possible. For example in Chapter 1 the book sentences that

...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:03:16 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:03:16 -0400 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:03:16 -0400 Sep 14, 2011 alberto gori 4 In terms of hyper growth, Scalability Rules! http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62974 Scalability Rules: 50 principles for scaling Web sites, by Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher, is a concise primer on the basics of building scalable Web applications that can accommodate incredible growth rates. Packed into a paperback about...]]> Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:12:03 -0400 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:12:03 -0400 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:12:03 -0400 Sep 13, 2011 JDenman 5