Author: Alexander Tretyakevich

Architectural Goals

The application architecture should address the following goals:

• Provide for sufficient level of the performance for a specific subsystem/business feature
• Be scalable to meet the needs for different lifecycles of the application (small at the start/growing as the popularity of the system will grow)
• Be effective (scaling of a specific feature shouldn’t require scaling of the entire system/global change of the application deployment environment)
• Be maintainable

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