Scalability: Links, News and Resources (1)

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Last Monday @federicoboerr mentioned, in a customer internal email list, the importance of considering scalability in most projects. So, I prepared this list of links about the topic (as usual, they were curated using my delicious). Enjoy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability

In electronics (including hardware, communication and software) scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.^[1] For example, it can refer to the capability of a system to increase total throughput under an increased load when resources (typically hardware) are added.

Scalability Rules

http://scalabilityrules.com/

via @federicoboerr

High Scalability

http://highscalability.com/

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 5, 2011

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/8/5/stuff-the-internet-says-on-scalability-for-august-5-2011.html

Wikimedia architecture

http://highscalability.com/wikimedia-architecture

Wikimedia is the platform on which Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and the other seven wiki dwarfs are built on.

HPCC Systems | Open-source. Fast. Scalable. Simple.

http://hpccsystems.com/

Tweaking WCF to build highly scalable async REST API

http://omaralzabir.com/tweaking-wcf-to-build-highly-scalable-async-rest-api

Architecture of Tankster– Scale (Part 2) | Nathan Totten

http://ntotten.com/2011/07/architecture-of-tankster-scale-part-2/

Architecture of Tankster – Introduction to Game Play (Part 1) | Nathan Totten

http://ntotten.com/2011/07/architecture-of-tankster-introduction-to-game-play-part-1/

NoSQL is a Premature Optimization « SmoothSpan Blog

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/nosql-is-a-premature-optimization/

Nati Shalom’s Blog: Scale-out vs Scale-up

http://natishalom.typepad.com/nati_shaloms_blog/2010/09/scale-up-vs-scale-out.html

Azurescope: Best Practices for Developing on Window Azure

http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/BestPractices/

High Scalability – High Scalability – 35+ Use Cases for Choosing Your Next NoSQL Database

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/6/20/35-use-cases-for-choosing-your-next-nosql-database.html

The Art of Scalability

http://theartofscalability.com/

Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality via WebSockets to web and mobile apps

http://pusher.com/

mnot’s blog: On HTTP Load Testing

http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules

10 rules for scalable performance in ‘simple operation’ datastores | June 2011 | Communications of the ACM

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/6/108651-10-rules-for-scalable-performance-in-simple-operation-datastores/fulltext

HDFS: Realtime Hadoop usage at Facebook — Part 1

http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/realtime-hadoop-usage-at-facebook-part.html

High Scalability – Zynga’s Z Cloud – Scale Fast or Fail Fast by Merging Private and Public Clouds

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/5/19/zyngas-z-cloud-scale-fast-or-fail-fast-by-merging-private-an.html

High Scalability – Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/25/did-the-microsoft-stack-kill-myspace.html

High Scalability – 6 Lessons from Dropbox – One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/14/6-lessons-from-dropbox-one-million-files-saved-every-15-minu.html

InfoQ: Scaling with MongoDB

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Scaling-with-MongoDB

High Scalability – A Practical Guide to Varnish – Why Varnish Matters

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/2/28/a-practical-guide-to-varnish-why-varnish-matters.html

Tagged Architecture – Scaling to 100 Million Users, 1000 Servers, and 5 Billion Page Views

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/8/8/tagged-architecture-scaling-to-100-million-users-1000-server.html

Spain Scalability Group

https://sites.google.com/site/spainscalabilitygroup

Systems We Make

http://www.systemswemake.com/

High Scalability – Paper: An Experimental Investigation of the Akamai Adaptive Video Streaming

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/2/16/paper-an-experimental-investigation-of-the-akamai-adaptive-v.html

Pensamientos ágiles: Grupo sobre escalabilidad en español

http://brigomp.blogspot.com/2011/02/grupo-sobre-escalabilidad-en-espanol.html

Patterns for Building Scalable and Reliable Applications with Windows Azure

http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/SVC08

Windows Azure Storage Abstractions and their Scalability Targets

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/05/10/windows-azure-storage-abstractions-and-their-scalability-targets.aspx

High Scalability – Pinboard.in Architecture – Pay to Play to Keep a System Small

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/12/29/pinboardin-architecture-pay-to-play-to-keep-a-system-small.html

Agile Wiki : The open source Web Application Framework that just Scales!

http://agilewiki.org/templates

High Scalability – What the heck are you actually using NoSQL for?

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/12/6/what-the-heck-are-you-actually-using-nosql-for.html

Autoscaling in Windows Azure

http://convective.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/autoscaling-in-windows-azure/

Windows Azure Dynamic Scaling with AzureWatch

http://www.paraleap.com/AzureWatch/Instructions

InfoQ: LMAX – How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX

Azul’s Pauseless Garbage Collector

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html

My thesis – building blocks of a scalable webcrawler – Marc’s Blog

http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2010/12/09/my-thesis-building-blocks-of-a-scalable-webcrawler

High Scalability – 7 Design Patterns for Almost-infinite Scalability

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/12/16/7-design-patterns-for-almost-infinite-scalability.html

InfoQ: The Evolution of the Flickr Architecture

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Flickr-Architecture

Apex Code: The World’s First On-Demand Programming Language – developer.force.com

http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Apex_Code:_The_World%27s_First_On-Demand_Programming_Language

InfoQ: Abstractions at Scale–Our Experiences at Twitter

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Abstractions-at-Scale

You don’t scale a multi tenant environment

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2010/12/12/you-donrsquot-scale-a-mutli-tenant-environment.aspx

InfoQ: Scaling Australia’s Most Popular Online News Sites with Ehcache

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ehcache-newscorp-australia

High Scalability – GPU vs CPU Smackdown : The Rise of Throughput-Oriented Architectures

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/12/3/gpu-vs-cpu-smackdown-the-rise-of-throughput-oriented-archite.html

Performance Testing – Response vs. Latency vs. Throughput vs. Load vs. Scalability vs. Stress vs. Robustness « Niraj Bhatt – Architect’s Blog

http://nirajrules.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/measuring-performance-response-vs-latency-vs-throughput-vs-load-vs-scalability-vs-stress-vs-robustness/

High Scalability – Great Introductory Video on Scalability from Harvard Computer Science

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/11/24/great-introductory-video-on-scalability-from-harvard-compute.html

Scalability and the Relational Model « Experimental Thoughts

http://thoughts.j-davis.com/2010/03/07/scalability-and-the-relational-model/

Thinking about massively parallel Smalltalk

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/537

Pragmatic Programming Techniques: Scalable System Design Patterns

http://horicky.blogspot.com/2010/10/scalable-system-design-patterns.html

Yoshinori Matsunobu’s blog: Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server

http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html

Cómo soporta Facebook 500M de usuarios | jmchia.com

http://jmchia.com/2010/09/estrategias-de-escalado-facebook/

How Facebook Scales with Open Source – ReadWriteCloud

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/08/how-facebook-scales-with-open.php

High Scalability – Hilarious Video: Relational Database vs NoSQL Fanbois

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/5/hilarious-video-relational-database-vs-nosql-fanbois.html

Designing Web Applications for Scalability

http://www.osconvo.com/post/view/2010/8/12/designing-web-applications-for-scalability

High Scalability – Designing Web Applications for Scalability

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/8/12/designing-web-applications-for-scalability.html

High Scalability – 7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used to Grow to 500 Million Users

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/8/2/7-scaling-strategies-facebook-used-to-grow-to-500-million-us.html

My Links

http://www.delicious.com/ajlopez/scalability

Keep tuned!

Angel “Java” Lopez

http://www.ajlopez.com


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