Scalability related links, updated and re-posted periodically.
Scaling Digg Joe Stump (via Kris Jordan)
Seven Stages of Scaling Web Applications - John Engales CTO, Rackspace (via High Scalability)
Windows Live Mesh architecture (Abolade Gbadegesin, Microsoft) and a overview of the presentation (James Hamilton)
List of interesting scalability links including Facebook, Flickr and Google (James Hamliton) eBays' Scalability Best Practices (Randy Shoup, via Infoq.com)
Architecture of large web 2.0 sites like Google (highscalability.com)
Scaling
Bumper Sticker to a billion pages per month (highscalability.com)
Managing Latency in an Internet application (highscalability.com)
Economics of Scalabiilty and Twitter as a
case study (Nati Shalom)
Wikipedia Infrastructure (Data Center Knowledge)
Things to Consider when planning for scalability (Kent Langley, Production Scale)
MySpace Architecture Q & A (Interview with Dan Farino by Ryan Slobojan)
Cloud Taxonomy (Hoff @ Rational Security)
Cloud Computing Links (John Rath @ Data Center Links)
A collection of IT strategy related links. Updated and re-posted preiodically.
Buy, Build, Host, Clouds, ROI, Economies of Scale for Applications (Gianpaolo Carraro @ Microsoft)
Links on Availability, updated periodically by reposting
Everything will Ultimately Fail. Michael Nygard ("If you do not design your failure modes, then you will get whatever unpredictable---and usually dangerous---ones happen to emerge. ")
Degraded Operations Mode (James Hamilton @ Perspectives)
Overview and explanation of Availability, MTTR and MTBF by Alan Robertson.
Root Cause Analysis Part 1, Part 2 (Tom Olzak, Tech Republic)
Links on data center physical design and power. Updated and republished periodically.
Analysis of Economics of Blade Servers (James Hamilton)
Google's data center efficiency. (Data Center Knowledge) and an analysis by James Hamilton
Useful data center related blog. (John Rath, Data Center Links)
Useful data center related blog. (Data Center Knowledge) and a very good list of other Data Center Blogs.
Server cabinet organization tips (Pete Sacco, Data Center Design).
The basics of 'racking and stacking' servers. (Matt, Standalone Sysadmin)
Server room cabling nightmare and cleanup (Tech Republic).
A Forbes article on per server data center facilities costs (Forbes)
James Hamilton on
Data Center Power costs.
Michael Manos on Microsoft's
Gen 4 Data Centers.
Interesting monitoring and logging links. Updated and republished periodically.
Answers to common logging questions; Worst logging practices (Anton Chuvakin, Log Logic).
MRTG and load balancers. (Vegan.net).
SNMP agent for Windows servers (Informant Systems).
An all-in-one Systat utility (Thomas Maier-Komor).
Logsurfer resources (Kerry Thompson).
Forensic web server logging. (Mark Burnett, Security Focus).
Interesting Solaris, ZFS, SMF and related links. Updated and reposted periodically.
Solaris Core File analysis, part 1 - mdb and part 2 - Solaris cat. Ben Rockwood.
ZFS's new L2ARC file system cache (Brendan Gregg @ Sun).
Solaris SMF FAQ (Bernd Schemer), SMF How To Guide (sun.com) and Using SMF (Chris Josephes, O'Reilly).
Solaris Containers Learning Center (sun.com). ZFS Cheatsheet (Colin Seymour) and Best Practices (solarisinternals.com).
Solaris Live Upgrade with Zones (sun.com) Solaris UFS file system performance guide (solarisinternals.com).
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