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This week at LWN: Scale Fail (part 2)

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LWN.net; By Josh Berkus
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In Part One of Scale Fail, I discussed some of the major issues which prevent web sites and applications from scaling. As was said there, most scalability issues are really management issues. The first article covered a few of the chronic bad decisions — or "anti-patterns" — which companies suffer from, including compulsive trendiness, lack of metrics, "barn door troubleshooting", and single-process programming. In Part Two, we'll explore some more general failures of technology management which lead to downtime.

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