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

http://www.danga.com/gearman/ something like MapReduce in Perl – from Brad!!

Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database

http://hypertable.org/ new project that tries to do open source “BigTable” implementation

YouTube Architecture | High Scalability

http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture presentation about Youtube internal architecture, details on how youtube can scale that much

Amazon's Dynamo - All Things Distributed

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html Amazon’s “Dynamo” - distributed hash table. Interesting bibliography at the end of the article

Zbr's days.

http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/blog [Kernel Developer] Evgeny Polyakov’s Blog – watch out for his DST and possibly new distributed filesystem