InfoQ: Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay

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

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

http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-billion-users notes about how skype uses partitioning to scale database level,

Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - The Death of Read Replication

http://krow.livejournal.com/590912.html interesting thoughts and notes about DBs and scalable systems

Handle distributed transactions with federated two-phase commit in WebSphere Federation Server Version 9.1

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0611chang/ 2PC stages

High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP [PSC]

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ interesting analysis about network performance

Java theory and practice: Thread pools and work queues

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp0730.html thread pools and how to design server applications

SQL Manager | EMS SQL Manager for PostgreSQL | Overview

http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/manager " * Download

Студия Emotion - разработка и дизайн сайтов в Мариуполе

http://5ds.ru/ web design studio from Ukraine, also http://free-lance.ru/users/maxtalker/

Permissive Action Links

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html#GS94 A PAL – a “Permissive Action Link” – is the box that is supposed to prevent unauthorized use of a nuclear weapon «<

Joost Network Architecture | High Scalability

http://highscalability.com/joost-network-architecture http://www.royans.net/files/MacCarthaigh-Joost.pdf – PDF slides