13 Scalability Best Practices | High Scalability
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The guys at http://highscalability.com released a list of 13 best practices about scaleability, check out their website if you want to know more about it and check the comments as well. Here are their top three:
AFK Partners has release what they feel are the Best Practices for Scalability:
1. Asynchronous - Use asynchronous communication when possible.
2. Swim Lanes – Create fault isolated “swim lanes” of hardware by customer segmentation.
3. Cache - Make use of cache at multiple layers.
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