Design Patterns (or techniques) for Scalability

Question

What design patterns or techniques have you used that are specifically geared toward scalability?

Patterns such as t

Answer 1

A few patterns that come in mind:

• Stateless application
• Loose coupling
• Asynchrony
• Lazy loading
• Caching
• Parallelism
• Partitioning
• Routing

Some resources:

• Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay
• Availability & Consistency presentation of Amazon's CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
• Microsoft PDC'08 Presentations
• Best Practices In Building Scalable Cloud Ready Service Based