"Scalability isn't a magic pixie dust you find in some boxes of cereals and not others. Scalability is extremely application specific." Absolutely correct. I

"Scalability isn't a magic pixie dust you find in some boxes of cereals and not others. Scalability is extremely application specific." Absolutely correct. I have an app that is not scalable in most of the traditional ways because one live memory based database needs to be fast, have very large capacity, and be instantly accessible to all users concurrently. This appears to require a custom coded C program whereas the front-end web servers are a minuscule issue in comparison.