Re: RubyOnRails and Intraweb

Brian Moelk wrote:
Paul Nichols [TeamB] wrote:
I can say a product is scalable, but what does that mean? As Brian
stated, we are talking server farms here, not 10 to 100 users.

FTR, I don't recall talking about Morfik's scalability on this thread.

FWIW, I would bet that Morfik will be able to "scale enough" for 90% of
the sites out there. Often times, enough means just 1 server. :)

Perhaps it was someone else. I thought I remembered a comment about server farms in this discussion. Sorry for the mistake :)

Although from their docs, I believe they do say their server is
stateless so adding a few servers, in theory, should work. And one
could scale with stateful servers anyway using something like octagate.

It could be. I didn't see it,but that does not mean it was not there. I took a cursory look at the tool and the site, had some serious questions about it, and pretty much left it at that.

Regardless, I don't believe Morfik is targeting the fortune 1000 and
that's fine. I think for most companies a single server will work and
work well.

I would agree, I think this tool is basically designed for those with little to no knowledge or experience with Web Application development, but who have other skills in a traditional Client/Server or terminal type environment. Nothing wrong with this, but I did not want the readers to think that reliance on such tool is a shortcut nor an ends to a means. It is a quite expensive venture into an arena that can be done with very little to no cost in a better more robust way, IMHO.
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