CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection : Gustavo Duarte
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008An exellent introduction article about x86 cpus protection mechanism. (run instruction in “rings”) good read.
Archive for the 'architecture' Category
Intel IXP425 | Timesys Embedded Linux [product page]
Friday, August 1st, 2008page lists some details about intel ixp4xx combo-cpu’s and there are some useful notes as to what kernel config options should be enabled. Timesys uses 2.6.16.10
[x86 booting] How Computers Boot Up
Wednesday, July 23rd, 20082nd article, the 1st is at http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/motherboard-chipsets-memory-map
Cookies are for Closers » LinkedIn Architecture
Thursday, June 5th, 2008interesing notes about LinkedIn architecture (JAVA + MYSQL + ORACLE)
Don’t use Pound for load balancing – Optimize Prime [use Ngnix]
Saturday, May 31st, 2008another evidence that if u need a loadbalancer — ngnix is the answer these days [and maybe perlball]
InfoQ: Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay
Friday, May 30th, 2008the subj says it. good article
Load Balancer Update « Barry on WordPress
Sunday, May 4th, 2008an entry from wordpress.com sysadim about “So… A couple weeks ago we finished converting all our load balancers to Nginx. ”
Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
Saturday, April 19th, 2008193 pages of realy good summaries on the topic
Exploring Amazon EC2 for Scale-out Applications
Saturday, April 19th, 2008very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform
Venu Anuganti Blog » Notes on scaling heavy concurrent writes in real time /InnoDB
Saturday, April 19th, 2008notes 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