Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint
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excellent notes about app design, and what can happen if an app tries to implement its own memory management
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Second Life notes about Message Queue Systems
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article by Matthew Garrett that actually explains how ACPI works
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also see http://dormando.livejournal.com/521163.html Describing some problems with performance/scalability you may have if you partition/shard your data by hash. ( that’s what memcached does.) You may hit the cpu bound limit from the amount of requ…
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myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues
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very good presentation slides explaining nginx internals, such as main architecture, main event loops, core modules, processing pipelines, etc. Also there is a video of the talk , but it is mandarin, so YMMV 
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writeup on yahoo PTUNS (distributed database ). Also, see the original paper if you are interested.
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Message to Kernel Mailing List about differences between XEN and KVM .
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very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info
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