Scaling up Business Applications - Lessons Learned
In my daily work I am often busy with migration of the legacy Line of Business applications to modern solutions using new architectures, latest technologies. I am always interested to find out more over the challenges there, the approach, results, and – most importantly – the lessons learned. That is one of the reasons I found it beneficial last week to attend a meeting for our .NET group From a Monolith to a Scalable Application , by Marc Gerritsen. The presentation was about a project of migrating an existing financial application that manages health insurers declarations. I had there a few questions for myself and I was specially interested in the 'how' part of their solution: How did you implement scaling? What was your approach? What pitfalls did you encounter? Vertical scaling Vertical scaling, by adding more computing resources to your application was implemented by extending the database new servers with more memory and new CPUs. There was also more which ...