http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui Interesting notes from 37signals about caching approach. (Make sure to read the comments, there is a message from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon)
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3112-how-basecamp-next-got-to-be-so-damn-fast-without-using-much-client-side-ui Interesting notes from 37signals about caching approach. (Make sure to read the comments, there is a message from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4069180/Caching-Performance-Lessons-from-Facebook Slides describe how FB uses caching at web server/php layer. ($GLOBALS->apc_cache->memcache->MySQL)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4069180/Caching-Performance-Lessons-from-Facebook Slides describe how FB uses caching at web server/php layer. ($GLOBALS->apc_cache->memcache->MySQL)
http://varnish-cache.org/wiki/ArchitectNotes excellent notes about app design, and what can happen if an app tries to implement its own memory management
http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/07/solid-state-drive-benchmarks-and-write.html read this before rushing to by some SSDs
http://krow.livejournal.com/590912.html interesting thoughts and notes about DBs and scalable systems
http://search.cpan.org/~opi/Apache-DBI-Cache-0.08/lib/Apache/DBI/Cache.pod#logger yet another module that does connection caching
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2007/04/29/3616/the-top-10-presentation-on-scaling-websites-twitter-flickr-bloglines-vox-and-more a collection of presentation on hi loaded web apps and their architecture
http://www.slideshare.net/acme/scaling-with-memcached nice presentation on memcached