Engineering scalability into an application

Question

What does it mean to say - Engineering scalability into applications. Are there design patterns that would make an application more scalable? This question is mainly in the cont

Answer 1

Here are some great resources on web application scalability to get you started: Todd Hoff's highscalability.com, Scalable Internet Architectures by Theo Schlossnagle, and Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson. Highscalability.com will point you to a lot of presentations and articles well worth reading, including this one from Danga about how they scaled LiveJournal as it grew.