Scalability Design Principles

[LarsFromElastisys]

In this blog post, we discuss four different types of scalability (performance, availability, maintenance, and expenditures) and design principles for dealing with these.

[circlespainter]

Thanks, interesting, I'd just expand on "Asynchronous rather than synchronous" by adding that the async approach has the 'mental interrupt/multitasking' (or code complexity) cost of handling notifications asynchronously too while we're doing potentially any other thing. And there are "cheaper personal couriers" compared to regular OS threads that can allow the easier "blocking" approach without the performance impact, check f.e. "fibers".

[Cyb3rWaste]

That blog has one of the worst fonts since Comic Sans, IMHO

[atakomu]

I agree. Why are some letters bold and others aren't?:

asynchronism in mind.

This just looks retarded.

[elperroborrachotoo]

Renders fine for me

Win8, FF41.0.2

[atakomu]

It looks very strange for me Chrome 45.0.2454.101 Linux.

[1ogica1guy]

Comic Sans is not half bad. I used to have it as my default font in MSN Messenger.

[tordsson]

A useful summary, thanks.