Architecture

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/cpu-rings-privilege-and-protection An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.

http://www.timesys.com/products/processors/intel/intel-ixp425 page lists some details about intel ixp4xx combo-cpu’s and there are some useful notes as to what kernel config options should be enabled. Timesys uses 2.6.16.10

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up 2nd article, the 1st is at http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/motherboard-chipsets-memory-map

http://cookiesareforclosers.com/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture interesing notes about LinkedIn architecture (JAVA + MYSQL + ORACLE)

http://blog.emmettshear.com/post/2008/03/03/Dont-use-Pound-for-load-balancing another evidence that if u need a loadbalancer – ngnix is the answer these days [and maybe perlball]

http://www.infoq.com/articles/ebay-scalability-best-practices the subj says it. good article

http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/load-balancer-update/ an entry from wordpress.com sysadim about “So… A couple weeks ago we finished converting all our load balancers to Nginx. "

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2569319/Real-World-Web-Performance-Scalability 193 pages of realy good summaries on the topic

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2569362/Exploring-Amazon-EC2-for-Scaleout-Applications very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform

http://venublog.com/2008/04/17/notes-on-scaling-heavy-concurrent-writes-in-real-time/ 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