Submission + - Large online distributed web application with hundreds thousand users. 1
AleX122 writes: Things I know: I am not the first person with a brilliant idea. Many others "inventors" failed and it may happen to me, but without trying the outcome will always be failure.
The project will be huge at the end, however currently I do not have money needed to hire developers. I have pretty solid experience in Java, GWT, HTML, Hibernate/Eclipselink, SQL/PLSQL/Oracle. The downside is project nature. All applications I was developing up to date were hosted on single server or in small cluster (2 tomcats with fail-over). . The application if I succeed will have to serve thousands of users simultaneously. The user base will cover all the world. The scale and data handling will be similar to Facebook. (It is not a clone of FB it is something totally different, but the infrastructure requirement might be similar)
The thing I would like you to help me: What technologies should I use, so in the future when traffic increase it will be easy to scale? I need distributed processing and data storage. I would like to stick to open standards so Google GAE or similar proprietary cloud solutions are not acceptable. Since I do not have resources to hire team of developers and I will be the first coder it would be nice if technology used is Java related. However when you have a hammer everything look like a nail, so I am open for not Java related technologies as well.
The project will be huge at the end, however currently I do not have money needed to hire developers. I have pretty solid experience in Java, GWT, HTML, Hibernate/Eclipselink, SQL/PLSQL/Oracle. The downside is project nature. All applications I was developing up to date were hosted on single server or in small cluster (2 tomcats with fail-over). . The application if I succeed will have to serve thousands of users simultaneously. The user base will cover all the world. The scale and data handling will be similar to Facebook. (It is not a clone of FB it is something totally different, but the infrastructure requirement might be similar)
The thing I would like you to help me: What technologies should I use, so in the future when traffic increase it will be easy to scale? I need distributed processing and data storage. I would like to stick to open standards so Google GAE or similar proprietary cloud solutions are not acceptable. Since I do not have resources to hire team of developers and I will be the first coder it would be nice if technology used is Java related. However when you have a hammer everything look like a nail, so I am open for not Java related technologies as well.
