High Scalability - High Scalability - Iron.io Moved From Ruby to Go: 28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/3/13/ironio-moved-from-ruby-to-go-28-servers-cut-and-colossal-clu.html sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )

High Scalability - High Scalability - Iron.io Moved From Ruby to Go: 28 Servers Cut and Colossal Clusterf**ks Prevented

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/3/13/ironio-moved-from-ruby-to-go-28-servers-cut-and-colossal-clu.html sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI - (37signals)

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)

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI - (37signals)

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)

Exploring Amazon EC2 for Scale-out Applications

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

Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App | High Scalability

http://highscalability.com/friends-sale-architecture-300-million-page-view-month-facebook-ror-app