Performance

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/?ca=dgr-lnxw02FasterLinuxNet SMP and network performace in linux (tcp only, no forwarding)

http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html results, data and following discussion from 2006 test of routing performance

http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&w=2&r=1&s=threads%3A%3Ashared&q=b Links to some discussions and code samples, if you need to implement ‘use Threads’ in mod_perl apache (prefork MPM )

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.slideshare.net/oscon2007/os-bunce Slides for DBD::Gofer presentation – scalable DBD connection-pool proxy from people @ danga/lj

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://burtonator.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/spinn3r-architecture-talk-2008-mysql-users-conference.pdf PDF slided for spinner sharded mysql architecture

http://blog.rlove.org/2007/08/those-dang-dpcs-clogging-mmcss.html inetersing article showing “fixing bugs - microsoft style” at its best, ohoho … no vista for me

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

http://search.cpan.org/~kroki/Cache-Memcached-Fast-0.08/ another hight performance Perl client (c lib + perl bindings as perl xs) to memcached