https://blog.iron.io/spikability-applications-ability-to/ Scalable serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and handheld customer support. Sun, 17 Jan 2021 04:21:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.iron.io/spikability-applications-ability-to/#comment-52 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:47:12 +0000 http://ironio2.wpengine.com/?p=176#comment-52 Caching can definitely help by essentially reducing load on your app/database, but a cache can’t perform an action. For retrieving data that is used often or takes time/resources to generate, a cache is a wonderful thing. For everything else your app needs to do, you need something else, like a message queue.

]]> https://blog.iron.io/spikability-applications-ability-to/#comment-51 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:18:33 +0000 http://ironio2.wpengine.com/?p=176#comment-51 I think caching may be the most important strategy for coping with traffic spikes on most websites. Traffic spikes tend to occur when a specific page on your site is linked from a popular site like reddit or the yahoo home page. If caching is implemented correctly, such hot pages will be served entirely from your cache, and your server load won’t be affected much.

]]> https://blog.iron.io/spikability-applications-ability-to/#comment-50 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:20:30 +0000 http://ironio2.wpengine.com/?p=176#comment-50 If users expect a result in real-time, message queue is not a solution.
Additionally, we use your example of a daily deal site, more often than not such sites have a fixed inventory amount. You can’t have a message queue process your orders. You’ll keep selling those offers while your whole inventory will still be in the queue.

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