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But most people are not Facebook (and will never be). If you have to have several hardware servers, I don't see why the application server itself cannot contai
by hasenj 9y ago
But most people are not Facebook (and will never be).
If you have to have several hardware servers, I don't see why the application server itself cannot contain basic boilerplate code to coordinate communication between the different instances of itself that are running on different machines.
- UK-AL 9y agoBecause you want your web servers to handle requests fast, and serve as many requests as possible. You want offload your non-time dependent requests to other machines to handle without slowing down your request processing on the web servers. Also most queues provide a mechanism distributing load and autoscaling.