While virtualization makes it pretty easy to spawn up new VMs quickly (e.g. for load balancing purposes), I always felt that providing concurrent file-based access to the same data to these VMs has been somewhat cumbersome, even though it’s still a requirement for many applications that need to share data between parts of the application, […]
Back in the good old days of physical servers, you basically had two choices to increase the performance of your application: you either “scaled up”, by migrating to a beefier server with more RAM, CPUs/MHz, or you “scaled out”, by distributing your application load across multiple individual servers. Interestingly, I still observe customers applying this […]