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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/2569319/Real-World-Web-Performance-Scalability 193 pages of realy good summaries on the topic

http://habrahabr.ru/ cool site, various news, buzz and stuff around web2.0

http://www.mod-rewrite-wizard.com/ usful for quick mod_rewrite rules, altghough mod_rewrite rules are basically regex

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

http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-CTPP2/lib/HTML/CTPP2.pm CTPP2 fast HTML templating librarty written in C++. HTML::CTPP2 is a Perl bindings to that library.

http://metamark.net/about#expire metamark tinyurl service

http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/programming/t-i-can-make-your-site-run-10-times-faster-1462.html nice summary for the above

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;257757 read this if u are interested to communicate with office COM objects inside IIS or any other non-interactive app (like web service)