Notes from netflix tech blog about some key points of their EC2-based infrastructure design. Note that netflix is not affected by the current EBS problems in AWS US-EAST region. Their key point seems to be to equally split your infrastructure betw…
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a draft of the book “Scalability and Availability Aspects” by Walter Kriha. Many up-to-date info on theory and practice of building scalable high-loaded web/internet systems
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Notes from Hotmail team about conversion of hostmail apache/bsd -based webfarm to windows 2000. (they have converted CGI to ISAPI filters running on IIS 5.x )
Posted in convert, freebsd, Microsoft, scalability, sysadmin, unix, windows, windows2000 | Comments Off | permalink
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some info about internals of vkontakte.ru – russian facebook clone, most popular soci…
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Notes from google ppl about their optimizations for SSL connections.
Posted in cryptography, google, http, https, Linux, openssl, performance, scalability, Security, ssl | Comments Off | permalink
PDF slides that show what happens if you create a file system with one billion (10**9 ) files
Posted in btrfs, ext3, ext4, filesystems, kernel, Linux, performance, presentation, scalability, storage, xfs | Comments Off | permalink
Blog pots shows and explains how to implement simple queue system on top of memcached
Posted in development, distributed, memcache, memcached, messaging, Perl, programming, queue, scalability, scaling, shortcut:perl | Comments Off | permalink
Second Life notes about Message Queue Systems
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notes on existing open source queue/messaging systems
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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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