Scalability

(how many CPU does linux supports | KernelTrap)

http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/x86_Architecture_Changes_Merging_in_2.6.25#comment-284562 current (JAN-2008) linux smp limits from Kconfig

Networking scalability on high-performance servers

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/ How to avoid problems with Linux networking scalability on high-performance systems

Paul Nielsen : 10 lessons from 35K tps

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/12/12/10-lessons-from-35k-tps.aspx notes (somewhat interesting) about big OLTP system based on SQLserver

Web/IMAP/POP frontend proxies changed to nginx « FastMail.FM Weblog

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2007/01/04/webimappop-frontend-proxies-changed-to-nginx/ interesting note about how ngnix got IMAP/POP proxy

Joost Network Architecture | High Scalability

http://highscalability.com/joost-network-architecture http://www.royans.net/files/MacCarthaigh-Joost.pdf – PDF slides

High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.

http://highscalability.com/ A LOT of bits of info, links to slides, posts, videos about BIG websites and their internals

YouTube Architecture | High Scalability

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

Peter Van Dijck’s:: A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.

http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2007/04/29/3616/the-top-10-presentation-on-scaling-websites-twitter-flickr-bloglines-vox-and-more a collection of presentation on hi loaded web apps and their architecture

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

Scaling with memcached » SlideShare

http://www.slideshare.net/acme/scaling-with-memcached nice presentation on memcached