Learn the pros and cons of website design scalability patterns. You'll know how to select the appropriate pattern for your website.

Top web sites such as Google and Facebook handle up to one billion visits per day, and a million daily hits or more is commonplace. With the proliferation of all sorts of devices from mobile phones, phablets, tablets, and PCs and the ever-increasing number of Internet users, scalability of websites is an increasingly important challenge. Businesses can't afford to be down during peak load times. However, scalability, even though highly coveted, may not...