Scaling

Quora often has very interesting posts.

Dynamo works too hard

Damien Katz writes about scaling.

Varnish in five acts

A nicely written article about implementing Varnish for scaling.

The Chaos Monkey

I like this; a post on Amazon's approach to scalability: they have a Chaos Monkey that randomly takes down their component servers to see if the remainder are really running as resiliently and failing as gracefully as they should.

That's brilliant.

Google Spanner

A scalable database.  What won't they think of next?

Scaling intro

Very nice for-dummies overview of scaling architectures.

Architecture of the BBC Olympics websites

This is fun.

Booking: mining massive datasets

Here's a useful-looking book on scalable data mining.

Scalable Machine Learning

Here's a Berkeley class on scalable machine learning.

Testing 3 million URLs

Wow.  Here's a nice article on lessons learned from policing dead links on StackExchange.

Twitter open-sources MySQL work

Twitter has done a lot of work on MySQL scalability, now open-sourced.

Why Patrick MacKenzie doesn't self-host WordPress

A typically fascinating article by everyone's favorite tech entrepreneur about how hosting WP at $200/month saves him serious money. Extremely valuable for its insight into how his hosting company does scaling. tl;dr: Load balancer, then Varnish caching proxy, then nginx for static content, then finally Apache for dynamic content.

Scaling PHP

Now that Oracle owns MySQL, MySQL-related articles are at Oracle. It's weird. Anyway, here's one about scaling PHP/MySQL applications.

Scaling a blog

Another scaling article - worth reading, tomorrow.

Scalable data mining of Twitter stream

Neat article that is interesting on multiple fronts for me.

CmdrTaco: not dead - scaling

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda writes about building a basically free-of-charge scalable cloud website.

Deployment configuration: static site on e.g. S3

There's been a little run on the notion of publishing static sites to high-availability cloud servers that's kind of cool. Definitely a nice tool for the toolbox.

• "High Scalability" blog (follow up!) has a strategy post to this effect with good analysis.
• Jekyll is one such option for blogging.

Scaling: HTTP caching

Some good advice. "Varnish".

Link dumping: scaling

It's time to reboot my browser, so it's link dump time.

A PDF presentation about scaling and PHP best practices from the NY PHP User Group.

And PHPFog, a scalable PHP hosting service with a convenient why-to.

Also: a blog, High Scalability.

Anatomy of a crushing

An excellently written article on lessons learned in scaleability.