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gerbil
gerbil

Reputation: 923

How does the Realm Mobile Platform scale?

You could say I am a fan of the Realm Mobile Platform. I'm using it and it seems to be working well.

However I am confused with how to operate it going to production. It seems to be deployed only to one server, and even the professional and enterprise editions are working on my single server.

Assuming Realm have thought of this (as Enterprise edition supports 'enterprise scaling) - how does this work if all clients point to my owned server URL?

Another question is how to monitor the load on that server.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 391

Answers (1)

teotwaki
teotwaki

Reputation: 1033

The Professional Edition and the Enterprise Edition emit statsd compatible metrics which allow you to track the usage and load on each node in a Realm Object Server cluster. These metrics are also used internally inside the cluster in order to display statistics about the health of the cluster.

We are obviously still adding metrics as we understand more about our customer's use-cases, and fine-tuning the ones that we have.

With regards to the way the clustering works, we are currently implementing this according to an iterative process, where we add more and more features, and more and more resilience to the system with every passing day.

Basically, we have a logical load balancer process, which receives the incoming client connections, and then dispatches that to a node inside the cluster. This logical load balancer can be HA'd and LB'd itself as well, just like you would any regular WS connection handler. Handling many connections these days is easy. It's handling the quadratic merge algorithms that is expensive on the Realm Object Server, which is why the clustering is required for deployments at scale.

Upvotes: 2

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