The Drag on Web Services

摘要

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Web services. Indeed, I consider them our only hope to make enterprise application integration manageable. But when the subject of XML acceleration arose at a recent meeting with another editor and a couple of vendor reps, I was appalled to learn that 200 to 300 transactions per second is considered an acceptable speed for Web services. I know from my experience at a Fortune 1000 and other companies that 200 to 300 TPS is abysmally low, regardless of platform or company size. I'd thought for sure customers had been demanding-and getting-up to 3,000 TPS from Web services, just as they get up to 3,000 connections per second from Web servers. But in fact, the only way anyone could get millions of hits a day on a Web service is by paying millions of dollars for the hardware to host the service and the staff to support the hardware, so clearly, that's not the answer.