CFInternals

Load-Balancing, High-Availability, and Sessions

Mike Brunt just posted the latest in a series of articles about high-availability web site architecture, with the conclusion that "the most effective Load Balancing in a Cluster is Round-Robin with Sticky-Sessions, if it is necessary to preserve state in a single user session."

The later portion of which would seem to be an interesting qualification.

After all, why would someone use memory-based sessions in an application meant to reside in a high-availability environment?

Answering Objections to Rich Internet Applications (Flash)

Anthony Franco has a nice article pointing out common objections to building Flash applications and the rebuttals one might use in answering them.

Some of which—unfortunately—I found to be unconvincing. For example, the ultimate answers to several of the issues (SEOs and accessibility) is simply to build two sites. Or "dual web experiences", as he calls them.

Somehow I don't see "use Flash and do twice the work" as a major selling point.