Web2.0

http://blog.matt-darby.com/posts/697-apache-passenger-vs-nginx-mongrel comparing 2 popular ways to deploy ruby-on-rails app

http://www.slideshare.net/cstrep/myoperacom-scalability-v20 slides from my.opera.com architecture presentation. Iptables/linux lvs -> apche/mod_perl -> mysql replication, varnish, memcached

http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/hi/69457/#habracut high-load web notification system or how to do persistent connections in ajax/js. Useful for counters, friend-status updates and so on. Example is given for libevent-based daemon in perl.

http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/ seems to a rare thing: a message queue server, running as a native code

http://highscalability.com/yahoo-s-pnuts-database-too-hot-too-cold-or-just-right writeup on yahoo PTUNS (distributed database ). Also, see the original paper if you are interested.

http://mzz.ru/ kind of cool MVC framework, supports a lot of modern features like url routing, etc. documentation seems to be only available in russian

http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/07/22/watching-nginx-upstreams-with-collectd/ tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)

http://wua.la/ social everything, now it’s social online file sharing

http://code.reddit.com/ Interesting to look when u have a time. PS: looks like they are using git and found a way to integrate it into Trac, which is pretty cool

http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/11/26/openid-ax/ notes about what is Attribute Exchange (ax) in OpenID