Re: Directories of Projects to Webize

On 12 February 2014 19:09, cr <_@whats-your.name> wrote:

> Melvin, i am wondering if you've defined "Web Scale" somewhere.
>
> see that term crop up regularly in marketing-materials in
> big-data/analytics land
>
> tends to mean "can you store/query 100 billion rows/records?
>              "can 50% of reddit's userbase login to your server-farm
> without falling over?
>
> "is your mainframe big enough" for your walled-garden to fit a sizable
> chunk of web-users..
>
> this is really different from how i've seen you use the term web-scale,
> more relating to localized regions of the web fan out to the rest in a
> cohesive way?
>

I dont have a specific definition of "web scale" other than the slightly
boring "scales like the web".  I think the ideal is that when effort is put
into interoperability the eco system can be useful to a small number of
participants and also a large number, without changing the fundamental
architecture too much.


>
> http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fractal.html is what you're talking about,
> i think
>
>
Thanks for the pointer.  This is a great article, perhaps we should term
"scale free" more often too.  I dont know about zipf's law, but I do see
the web operating in clusters that can be be potentially ljoined together.
Webizing is one way to do this.