Service Design

  Best Practice 1

 Process Developement and Testing

  Best Practice 2 - Separate servers for different business processes
  Best Practice 3 - Error Handling
  Best Practice 4 - Explicit Transformations
  Best Practice 5 - Version Control Integration
  Best Practice 6 - Component Level Testing
  Best Practice 7 - Process Level Testing

 Scalability and Load Balancing

  Best Practice 8 - Scaling by adding more peers/servers to the network
  Best Practice 9 - Scaling by distributing load across multiple service instances
  Best Practice 10 - Scaling via Transparent Resource Addition
  Best Practice 11 - Changing your Processes Dynamically
  Best Practice 12 - Parallelizing your Data Flows

 ESB Process Deployment

  Best Practice 13 - Separate servers for different business processes
  Best Practice 14 - Controlling Event Process Size and deploying Components on different nodes

 Performance Tuning and Memory Optimization

  Best Practice 15 - Server Optimization
  Best Practice 16 - Service Component Optimization

 Application Integration on an ESB