We’ve entered an era of application development that increasingly requires scalable solutions to everyday problems. By and large, the methods used to scale an application to massive proportions are fairly standardized. With a modicum of time spent researching database scalability methods, one can get the gist of the strategies involved in solving many common scalability problems. The actual implementations of such methods, however, have nary seen the light of day beyond the doors of the companies and developers that develop them.
