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Scalability

I've been talking about scalability a lot this week, which is interesting in a country of approximately six million homes. That's not to say that there's not a need to support transactions and visitors - quite the opposite. There's some very impressive bandwidth to homes and mobile devices that helps to set user expectations quite high. If I were able to get over 14 Mb/second to my mobile phone, I'd want good response time too. The challenge is providing a robust basic level of service to support the bandwidth while giving application flexibility for compelling content.

The stadium in the picture above is the Melbourne Cricket Grounds which holds nearly 100,000 people - how's that for a high bandwidth requirement? Yes, I did take that picture which means that I finally got out of my meetings and had a chance to wander around Melbourne. It's a great city, very easy to walk and explore. I got a chance to see the Parliament Building, a JFK Memorial and walked along the quay. Unfortunately, time was very short and it was late by the time that dinner was over. Now we just have to work on the availability of souvenir stores late at night.

I'm looking forward to heading home tomorrow after an action packed few days. Hopefully, it won't be another 15 hours in a middle seat on the airplane. Either way, it'll be good to be home even if it's just for a little while.

Posted at 09:13AM Oct 19, 2007 by bs in General  |  Comments[1]