Performance

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/08/12/facebook-search-search-for-social-networks/ facebook uses mysql, I didn’t know

http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/talks/HPPHP-PHPCON2002.html George Schlossnagle notes on hight performance PHP, from PHPCON 2002

http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/Apachecon-EU2005/scaling-apache-handout.pdf 20K concurrent download of static content from a single server – a paper how SF.net mirror from Ireland did that.

http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Choosing_MaxClients apache performance tuning, by mod_perl people

http://www.devside.net/articles/apache-performance-tuning “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” – Donald Knuth.

http://2bits.com/articles/tuning-the-apache-maxclients-parameter.html

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-August/006709.html benchmarking of sysbench in read-write, pgsql vs mysql under FreeBSD

http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah/

http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/jAppServer2004-20070606-00065.txt PostgreSQL spec performance test, compared to oracle. With full hardware specs and comments on tuning solaris and postgres

https://ols2006.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/lameter-Reprint.pdf In 2007