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重要的体系结构 Tom Hughes最终才明白他的Web站点所依赖的IT基础还是有一些较严重的裂缝。为了吸引新成员到他的www.photodisc.com站点来,Hughes作了一次改进:允许新成员从PhotoDisk公司巨大的照片库中下载免费图象。Hughes—公告他的新举措,站点立刻就挤满了1万个新顾客。 PhotoDisk公司的Hughes回忆说:“整个系统立刻就快没顶了!我们的系统当时还不具有与邢种暴涨的需求相适应的可伸缩性。”这段时期里对很多电子贸易的先行者来说,这个故事所有的一切都太平常了。
Important architecture Tom Hughes finally came to understand that the foundation of the IT on which his Web site relied was still a few more serious cracks. In an effort to attract new members to his www.photodisc.com site, Hughes made an improvement: allowing new members to download free images from PhotoDisk’s huge photo gallery. Hughes-announcement of his new move, the site immediately packed with 10,000 new customers. Hughes, of PhotoDisk, recalls: “The whole system was going to die soon! Our system did not yet have the scalability that matched the rapidly growing demand.” For many e-commerce pioneers during this period Everything about this story is all too commonplace.