Technology is never a problem… when the business is small. As soon as it takes off and grows in an exceptional way, it can become one of the principal problems. We tend to believe that our first system, programmed in-house and with our own resources, is all we need.
There is a great difference between programming a website, more or less complex, and having a complete business platform that grows with the needs of every moment. There are many platforms that feel comfortable with 100 to 500 parallel transactions. Almost any will do. The problem is when you are talking about doing 50,000 concurrent sessions, with millions of clients in your database, and an exponential increase in traffic.
“Cloud computing” is an increasingly widespread way to solve the problem, but not all the “clouds” are the same and, in some cases, as with Amazon’s, you can be giving ideas to a potential competitor. The other thing to bear in mind is the experience of the CTO. CTOs, which have never been in environments of huge growth, have a hard time, and they find it difficult to foresee the future development of a platform which, every time it improves, has already been superseded by the avalanche of clients.
Solid computing is key in these environments. One can save but one must do it knowing exactly what it is they’re doing.
Translated by Babelic.com
