Being in an “always on,” always connected world means that thousands or even millions of people may be concurrently accessing your enterprise websites and web applications. Additionally, use of social and mobile elements in web properties drives rapid “hockey stick” growth in usage, resulting in what the industry calls a “web-scale” application. Being web-scale not only affects the predictability of usage patterns, but also puts a tremendous strain on the scalability expectations of both the software architecture and infrastructure. Additionally, factors such as seasonality impact the scalability profile of that application over time to have peak and non-peak usage change wildly.
In order to be capable of web-scale usage, web applications need to scale-out and do so quickly, and also be able to scale-in when load subsides. The burden of building this sort of architecture has traditionally been shouldered by the developers building the website and the operations team managing the website. Fortunately, the Apprenda platform provides the technology and APIs to make developing and managing web-scale applications easy.
Apprenda is a highly scalable, highly available hosting fabric for your most demanding web-scale applications. Scaling out an application is a button click process that trivializes the task by automating the spin-up of new application instances, updating load balancers, and monitoring instances for guaranteed capacity footprints. Additionally, Apprenda’s APIs provide easy access to distributed caching, queues, and messaging sub-systems to augment standard web development with architecture services critical in achieving web-scale.