Archive for the 'high_load' Category

High performance nginx.conf [~0.5M connections]

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

Example of high performance nginx config (no SSL), for single server hardware, ~ 0.5M client connections.
(found on nginx mailing list)

High performance nginx.conf [~0.5M connections]

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

Example of high performance nginx config (no SSL), for single server hardware, ~ 0.5M client connections.
(found on nginx mailing list)

High performance nginx.conf [~0.5M connections]

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

Example of high performance nginx config (no SSL), for single server hardware, ~ 0.5M client connections.
(found on nginx mailing list)

Instagram Engineering • What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

EC2 -> Ubuntu 11.o4 /, PostgreSQL 9.+ (Replication) + S3 (photo files) + Redis + Solr + Gearman-> Dajango / memcached -> Nginx -> ELB / Munin for monitoring trends, Pingdom for alerting,

Instagram Engineering • What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

EC2 -> Ubuntu 11.o4 /, PostgreSQL 9.+ (Replication) + S3 (photo files) + Redis + Solr + Gearman-> Dajango / memcached -> Nginx -> ELB / Munin for monitoring trends, Pingdom for alerting,

reddit/reddit – GitHub

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Configuration of Reddit website as GitHub repo.

reddit/reddit – GitHub

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Configuration of Reddit website as GitHub repo.

Ultra-Large-Scale-Sites / Walter Kriha, Scalability and Availability Aspects [application/pdf]

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

a draft of the book “Scalability and Availability Aspects” by Walter Kriha. Many up-to-date info on theory and practice of building scalable high-loaded web/internet systems

The Facebook Data Center FAQ (Page 3) « Data Center Knowledge

Friday, October 1st, 2010

article about facebook infrastructure, the 3rd page contains links to different videos and presentations by facebook engineers

dga: Notes from Google "Flash" talk at UCSD non-volatile memories workshop

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

a lot of interesting details about using flash drives as cache and high-perf block io devices (notes from google talk given at UCSD)