High Scalability helps you build successful scalable websites. This site tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence. Hopefully this site will move you further and faster along the learning curve of success. 

When you are coding in a hurry, it is very tempting to write business logic in the first place that comes to mind, such as a button click handler in your UI code.  However, for all but the simplest systems, such a practice leads very quickly to a system that is very difficult to work with, much less modify, because its business logic is scattered like the ash from an erupting volcano.  So let's take a step back and see how you can develop an application more intelligently.