Jonathan Huxley :: Consulting

With an extensive background architecting very large hardware infrastructures for ISPs, hosting companies, large consumer-facing applications and solutions for Fortune 500 companies we are able to fully leverage that experience and expertise and deploy solutions that can scale both in terms of the technical forecasts and capacity planning, but also inline with the available funds (and in the case of startups, the current funding strategy and revenue model).

Generally we prefer a horizontal scaling approach using commodity hardware where appropriate for web application server farms. Very large storage requirements presents an interesting challenge where a similar approach can often be taken (global file systems) or deployment of high end SANs--depending on the bespoke nature of the application. for database-centric solutions most applications favor a high availability synchronous or asynchronous replication solution. Deployment of SSD RAID can reduce typical bottlenecks that are associated with RDBMS solutions, depending on the read / insert requirements of the application.

These days the actual hardware deployment is typically handled by the hosting company for all but the most unusual applications. Most engery is therefor on the middleware layer, ensuring linear scalability, redundancy, load balancing (if software-based--and high availability) and profiling and debugging capabilities at the server level if necessary.

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	With an extensive background architecting very large hardware infrastructures for ISPs, hosting companies, large consumer-facing applications and solutions for Fortune 500 companies we are able to fully leverage that experience and expertise and deploy solutions that can scale both in terms of the technical forecasts and capacity planning, but also inline with the available funds (and in the case of startups, the current funding strategy and revenue model). Generally we prefer a horizontal scaling approach using commodity hardware where appropriate for web application server farms. Very large storage requirements presents an interesting challenge where a similar approach can often be taken (global file systems) or deployment of high end SANs--depending on the bespoke nature of the application. for database-centric solutions most applications favor a high availability synchronous or asynchronous replication solution. Deployment of SSD RAID can reduce typical bottlenecks that are associated with RDBMS solutions, depending on the read / insert requirements of the application. These days the actual hardware deployment is typically handled by the hosting company for all but the most unusual applications. Most engery is therefor on the middleware layer, ensuring linear scalability, redundancy, load balancing (if software-based--and high availability) and profiling and debugging capabilities at the server level if necessary. << Back Key words: Linux (Red Hat / CentOS / Debian), UNIX, SOLARIS, PHP, Perl, Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, PostgreSQL, MySQL, BerkleyDB, InnoDB, Tomcat, Apache, Lighttpd, Memcached, PostGIS, Slony, Zend Platform, GeoSer ver, Lucene, SOLR, SOAP, ReST, AMF, XML, JSON, GeoJSON, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Model-View-Controller.

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