Macromedia heeft alweer een nieuwe homepagina. Al Ramadan legt uit waarom ze wat veranderd hebben tussen beta 1 vorige week en beta 2 nu. Boeiend, interessant, en vooral: moedig van Macromedia.
En ze geloven ook in dogfooding:
Behind the scenes, the new macromedia.com system architecture is very straightforward and scalable. We are using Apache as our web server, handling all content and Macromedia Flash requests. Apache is running on a cluster of 10 Sun E420s, all with 4CPUs and 4GB RAM. The application servers are running ColdFusion MX for J2EE on JRun, a cluster of 3 Sun E4500s, all with 8 CPUs and 8GB RAM. Our Oracle database supporting all of the new applications is running on two mirrored E4500s, again with 8 CPUs and 8GB RAM.
So far this configuration has worked flawlessly – 0% downtime. In addition, we have only hit 40% capacity during peak hours, which is good.