Daniel Sperry's Blog: Scalability podcast

I found this podcast some time ago while researching about garbage collection.

It is very interesting. I was listening it again and saw how it helps to understand some scalability issues that we are dealing in order to make our game scale.

Extreme Transaction Processing,
Low Latency and Performance

In this podcast, John, who has over 30 years of experience in investment banking and integration technology, John will cover several case studies of extreme transaction processing, low latency and high performance systems and offer insight into what we might expect to see in mainstream in the near future.

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/knowledgecenter/knowledgecenter.tss?l=PodcastJohnDavies

Podcast Slides
http://www.incept5.com/library/TSS%20EJS%202008%20-%20Extreme%20Transaction%20Processing%20-%20John%20Davies.pdf

Some links to read while watching the podcast.

Extreme Transaction Processing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Transaction_Processing

Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) is an exceptionally demanding form of transaction processing. Transactions of 10,000 concurrent accesses (500 transaction per second) or more would require this form of processing.

500 seens a little, don't you think?

Apache Qpid

"maximum repeatable ingress rate of ~760,000/2 = 380,000 messages
per second (for 256 byte messages). Thus, if doing OPRA (Options Price Reporting Authority)
with a pack factor of 16 in 256 bytes, that would allow for (16 x 380,000 =) 6,080,000 ingress
OPRA messages/ second to 60 consumers on shared queues."

Tangosol (mentioned in the pocast, bought by Oracle)