Scalability

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

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

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2569319/Real-World-Web-Performance-Scalability 193 pages of realy good summaries on the topic

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://venublog.com/2008/04/17/notes-on-scaling-heavy-concurrent-writes-in-real-time/ notes about how to scale innodb writes. to summ it up: shard, use int as PKEY (convert hash to int using base-convert, batch lots of write into one trx. / nothing special

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

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

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

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

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