Showing posts with label scalability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scalability. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2007

Scalability and StringListCodec

Now that I'm worrying about Large Scale Hackystat applications, I've run across a scalability issue in StringListCodec. It currently hardwires the maximum string size as 99,999 and the maximum number of strings as 9,999.

These translate to constraints on (a) the size of a sensor data instance and (b) the number of sensor data instances that can be sent in any individual Hackystat SOAP transmission.

Fortunately, this is easy to fix: these are constants that could potentially be overridden, for example, by a property value. The cost of increasing them is an increase in the "fixed cost" of a sensor data transmission, due to the way StringListCodec works.