The Twitter Engineering Blog
Friday, February 19th, 2010all sorts of system and software engineering info from Twitter. Also see http://twitter.com/about/opensource
Archive for the 'high_load' Category
Jon Schutz Technical Notes and Recommendations » Perl client for Facebook’s scribe logging software
Friday, February 19th, 2010Describes how to build thrift (cross-platform service/RCP framework from facebook) modules for scribe client (high-performance async log aggregator server from facebook). Also see Log::Dispatch::Scribe on CPAN
High Scalability – High Scalability – Facebook’s Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines != More Capacity
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009also 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…
Joshua Zhu’s Blog » C10K [how to write C10K server]
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009notes about high-performance unix server programming, things like concurrency models, IO types, memory allocation strategies, etc.
Joshua Zhu’s Blog » Nginx Internals (Slides & Video)
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009very 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 