On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:52 PM, David Kao <[email protected]> wrote: > I got intrigued by the mention of "cluster deployment." > > I assume the goal of this Apache project is to eventually produce > something that could somewhat measure up Google's own backend that > used to serve Wave?
The goal of the WiaB project is to provide a simple feature complete wave server. Something that can provide a similar feature set to that provided by Google Wave. I believe it was Soren that said the server should support 100s of users and 1000's of waves. That's a scalability target that can be met by a single server implementation. However, just because our immediate goal is a single server implementation, doesn't mean that we should make design choices that will make it harder to scale up later. I suspect that scaling to a multi server cluster will require significant work regardless, but I would rather not make it harder than it has to be, because eventually someone will be doing the scale up and I'd rather they not be cursing my name :-) > I would be very interested in watching (and hopefully participating > in) the development of the backend. > All contributions are welcome. So dive on in. -Tad
