Archive for the 'scalability' Category

InfoQ: Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay

Friday, May 30th, 2008

the subj says it. good article

Networking scalability on high-performance servers

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

SMP and network performace in linux (tcp only, no forwarding)

Real World Web: Performance & Scalability

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

193 pages of realy good summaries on the topic

Exploring Amazon EC2 for Scale-out Applications

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform

Venu Anuganti Blog » Notes on scaling heavy concurrent writes in real time /InnoDB

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

notes about how to scale innodb writes. to summ it up: shard, use int as PKEY (convert hash to int using base-convert, batch lots of write into one trx. / nothing special

spinn3r-architecture-talk-2008-mysql-users-conference.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

PDF slided for spinner sharded mysql architecture

Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users | High Scalability

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

notes about how skype uses partitioning to scale database level,

Gearman – system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

something like MapReduce in Perl — from Brad!!

Brian "Krow" Aker’s Idle Thoughts – The Death of Read Replication

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

interesting thoughts and notes about DBs and scalable systems

Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database

Friday, February 8th, 2008

new project that tries to do open source “BigTable” implementation