Here is one, http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ I bookmarked an AskSlashdot thread on a similar topic a while ago but Slashdot has archiv

Here is one, http://highscalability.com/ http://highscalability.com/ I bookmarked an AskSlashdot thread on a similar topic a while ago but Slashdot has archived the original thread so here is the google cache entry, look at the O'Reilly books they should answer a lot of your questions. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:eugOZQ5ltGwJ:ask.slashdot.org/article.pl%3Fsid%3D07/08/23/1447220+Learning+high-availability+server+side+development+site:slashdot.org&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:eugOZQ5ltGwJ:ask.slashd... A final word of caution though, There is no silver bullet. You are your applications best scalability expert.