An app can scale if it is able to grow to meet the demand of your users
Is your app SLOW? Apps and websites that don't scale can seriously hinder your business growth. In many cases, if your app can't scale it can wreck your reputation and lose you business.
Symptoms of apps that are not dealing with demand:
- Slowness, long load times and poor responsiveness
- Frequent and unexpected errors
- Features or functions that simply don't work
Just because your traffic goes crazy, doesn't mean your costs have to.
As your site grows it is natural to expect that your hosting or running costs will increase. However, very often because of slow or poorly scaling apps, these costs end up being far higher than they should be. You could save thousands of dollars by entering the AppScale program.
The AppScale Formula
The Codefire team looks at the following areas to help get the most of your application.
1. Optimisation
Often scaling problems occur because of poorly written code in your app or website. In some cases this is because the code performed sufficiently with smaller traffic volumes (and is only now becoming a problem) and in other cases the developer simply didn't realise the code they wrote was suboptimal. We start with a code review of your application and a performance analysis using our advanced monitoring tools. We can then identify problem areas and rework the code so that they perform better.
2. Architecture
Sometimes slowness or scalability problems are due to a fundamental problem in the design or underlying architecture of your application. A "refactoring" of key components can be required so that you can grow your traffic reliably.
3. Platform
How your app is hosted and deployed on the web and even the language in which it is written can affect its scalability. As part of the process we may recommend moving your app to a highly scalable "Platform-as-a-Service" technology such as Heroku or EngineYard. In extreme cases sections or even the entire app may need to be rewritten in a language that is more suited to the task at hand.
Technology
The AppScale team specialises in apps or sites written in Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Javascript. We can also offer advice on applications written in Java, Python, .Net or PHP. Find out more on our Technology page.
Our Partners
We've partnered with cloud platform providers Heroku and EngineYard as well as the advanced monitoring service, New Relic to help us provide the AppScale service. Find out more on our Partners page.