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Enterprise Service Bus architecture

Quick architecture question. I am needing to set up a portal/website with a database This is easy but now I want to add on functionality for apps, and other clients to interact through an API. My first thought was put an ESB in the architecture. The…
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Network (firewall) architecture for a LARGE corporate

I am wondering how many of you who work for LARGE companies have a network architecture that enforces the use of three-separate firewalls to get at the data. In other words: * Separation of external (internet) parties and a presentation tier by a…
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is it better to use several small machines or fewer big ones to deploy a stack?

Is it better to split the different components of a stack over several smaller machines or get 1 or 2 bigger machines and put several components on a same machine? My thought is that if I start with several machines, it will be easier to scale by…
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Mysql - best setup for 4 replication databases and another standalone

we would like to merge on one server 2 mysql instances coming from 2 different server : 4 databases on the first instance, which is a replication slave, which are replicated from a master 1 database on the second instane, which is standalone (a…
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Single instance EC2 env versus multiple split stack?

I am fairly new to AWS and have designed a fairly flexible architecture which is fairly performant and fault tolerant over multiple regions/AZs However I was thinking - what would the main disadvantages of sticking my entire stack (apps, DB, etc)…
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Are computations performed in a Docker container exactly repeatable?

I've read the question titled "How is Docker.io different from a normal virtual machine?", but I'm still not certain how "virtual" docker containers are. For example, in a scientific setting, repeatability is very important. If an image produces a…
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How do I calculate the Number of Web FrontEnd Servers For SharePoint

How should I arrive at the Number of the Front End Web Servers that are needed for the SharePoint Installation which is going to serve 40K Users.
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Cloning a server across architectures

I have this Linux (Debian) server that I want to duplicate, with all its services and their settings. Actually, it is to replace the existing server with newer hardware. I'd like the process to be as painless as possible. So I was thinking, that I…
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Photo storage / sort

I'm wondering what the best practice is for photo storage. I'm in the business of storing photos with a user. Each user can have up to 35 photos and we currently have around a 100k users. I currently reference the photo's from a database. My…
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Managing hosts and iptables in scalable architecture

Let's say I have a load balancer in front of 3 app servers. Let's say I also have these services available at certain IPs: Postgres server Redis server ElasticSearch server Memcached server 1 Memcached server 2 Memcached server 3 So that's 6 nodes…
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How do I run a 32bit programme on amd64 server?

As a followup to this question, I have discovered that this closed source programme is 32bit and I have an amd64 server. The server is gentoo that has recently been upgraded. What do I need to install in order to make this programme work? I know…
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can you give me feedback on an HA architecture using linux-ha and pacemaker?

I am trying to come up with an architecture for achieving HA on one of our services (in-house service, single tcp connection for all requests). Just started reading on linux-ha and pacemaker, and i'd like to know if the following approach makes any…
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architectual issue: few requests from client to server

I'm developing web application (javascript + php) and I have architectual issue. I have to send 4 requests to server. First will gather basic information (effectivity is OK), then after receiving data from server, I have to do 3 one-by-one requests…
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What are EN, EP and EX platforms?

I keep hearing all these terms - EN, EP and EX level servers. What do these terms mean? What are they classifications of? How are they demarcated from one another? How are they different from the thin client-thick client server classification used…
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Storing pages with only client-side code in S3 over full EC2?

Question: Would storing pages in S3 with only client-side code reduce costs in comparison to hosting them in Amazon's EC2? Background: Right now I use a cms to manage all of my pages and users for a website, but I was thinking about just saving the…
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