It's all a Numbers Game - the Dirty Little Secret of Scalable Systems • Martin Thompson • GOTO 2012

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2012 http://gotocon.com Martin Thompson - High-Performance Computing Specialist RESOURCES https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.ch https://twitter.com/mjpt777 https://github.com/mjpt777 https://linkedin.com/in/martinjthompson ABSTRACT What does it really mean for a system to scale? How do we know we have built a system that scales to meet the business requirements in a cost effective manner? With ever increasing transaction and data volumes we need to take such questions a lot more seriously. It is now becoming critical for many businesses to focus in on the IT costs per user; otherwise they are not profitable. "Just throw hardware at the problem", is getting tired and just does not wash for many organisations. https://twitter.com/gotocon https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com