Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications 

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 2:26AM
Todd Hoff in Strategy

Nick Belhomme wrote up a excellent summary of a talk given by Eli White on building scalable web applications. Eli worked at digg.com and is now the PHP Community Manager & DevZone Editor-in-Chief at Zend Technologies. Eli takes us on a grand tour through various proven scaling strategies. On the trip you'll visit:

What is scalable application design

Tip 1: load balancing the webserver

Tip 2: scaling from a single DB server to a Master-Slave setup

Tip 3: Partitioning, Vertical DB Scaling

Tip 4: Partitioning, horizontal DB Scaling

Tip 5: Application Level Partitioning

Tip 6: Caching to get around your database

Resources

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).