What are some best practices for making sure your .NET code will scale well? [closed]

Question

Last week I interviewed for a position at a TripleA MMORPG game company here in NE. I didn't get the job but one of the areas that came up during the interview was the about the scalability of the code that you write and how it should be considered early on in the design of your architecture and classes.

Sadly to say I've never thought very much about the scalability of the .NET code that I've written (I work with single user desktop and mobile applications and our major concerns are usually with device memory and rates of data transmission). I'm interested in learning more about writing code that scales up well so it can handle a wide range of remote users in a client server environment, specifically MMORPGs.

Are there any books, web sites, best practices, etc. that could get me started researching this topic?

Answer 1

Here are some places to start:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/2/8/how-farmville-scales-to-harvest-75-million-players-a-month.html

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/~wmwhite/papers/2009-ICDE-Virtual-Worlds.pdf

In particular, http://highscalability.com is full or articles about huge websites that scale and how they do it (Digg, flickr, facebook, YouTube, ...)