- From: Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:41:35 +0200
- To: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Cc: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On 12 Aug 2009, at 10:46, Dave Raggett wrote: > One of the challenges for distributed social networking is dealing > with sudden hotspots where a huge spike of interest in a single > person causes the server that hosts that person's profile to falter > under the load. This suggests the value for applying peer to peer > techniques to dynamically distributing the load across many > machines. Peer to peer techniques can also help to sustain > performance for search by distributing the processing across many > machines. Yes, though I think it should be very rare. Cloud computing solutions should be able to deal with such situations quite well. In Social Netoworks I think it is very rare than one person garners so much visibility that a simple server would get overloaded. Easier than changing the protocols for such a situation is to simply upgrade your service contract for a period. Henry
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