From the course: Choosing an Ecommerce Platform for Developers
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Scalability
From the course: Choosing an Ecommerce Platform for Developers
Scalability
- [Narrator] If you ask any software company, about their product, they'll say, "our software scales." And it's said so often, the question often becomes meaningless. Just about anyone will say, "it scales," and they probably have some dataset that proves it. This comes up a lot in the e-commerce landscape because proponents of hosted solutions, say that their platform scale, while self-hosted solutions, don't scale. And that's not entirely true. Scaling, can mean a bunch of different things, which is why it's so hard to define. For an analytic software, it's probably page hits. For a blog, it's probably visitors or the number of posts. And for e-commerce companies, it's usually the number of orders per second. And that's what most people don't realize. They think platforms limit them on the number of products, which almost never happens. Even if you have 10,000 products, it rarely slows down the site. We're not going to go into the technical reasons of why this is the case, but in…
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