A scalable stock Web service

Author

Betz, Katherine

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

150

Abstract

We built an Internet stock service and focused on its scaling characteristics. This service allows a person to request email notification when a specified stock reaches a price. For example, one could request to be emailed when IBM reaches or exceeds $150. We decided to leverage the capabilities of an underlying publication/subscription (pub/sub) system which has a JMS interface. We explored ways to configure the pub/sub system as well as how to tie it to a Web application server. We also explored performance results on different machines. Our goal was to determine what was necessary to scale to 3 million user stock requests as well as to have 100,000 satisfied each day and 100,000 new requests entered each day. We proved this possible

Keywords

electronic mail; information resources; stock markets; Internet stock service; JMS interface; Web application server; email notification; publication/subscription system; scalable stock Web service; Application software; Computer architecture; Scalability; Service oriented architecture; Software architecture; Steady-state; Subscriptions; Web and internet services; Web pages; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

ISSN

1530-2016

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0771-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.2000.869098

Filename

869098