Link “Introduction to MySQL Cluster The NDB storage engine (MySQL Cluster) is a high-availability storage engine for MySQL. It provides synchronous replication between storage nodes and many mysql servers having a consistent view of the database. In 4.1 and 5.0 it’s a main memory database, but in 5.1 non-indexed attributes can be stored on disk. [...]

A very interesting Google talk about designing a good API. This may not seem like a scalability issue, but if you really want to host a horizontally scalable system you need to have a good scalable API design to go with it. Every day around the world, software developers spend much of their time working [...]

If you haven’t seen these links before.. you should check this page first “Talks and slides from web architects“. But if you have already seen that page… here are the updates from last week.   PDF Case for Shared Nothing   PDF The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems     Building Highly Scalable [...]

This may not be a surprise for a lot of people but it was for me. Even though I have been using lucene and nutch for some time, I didn’t really know enough about Hadoop and HBase until recently. Hadoop Scalable: Hadoop can reliably store and process petabytes. Economical: It distributes the data and processing [...]

For latest set of links go here. This is a collection of various slides, pdfs and videos about designing scalable websites I collected time. If you have something interesting which might go in here, please let me know. Date Type Title 6/23/2007 Blog Getting Started with Drupal 6/23/2007 Blog 4 Problems with Drupal 6/23/2007 Video [...]

By Theo Schlossnagle   As a developer, you are aware of the increasing concern amongst developers and site architects that websites be able to handle the vast number of visitors that flood the Internet on a daily basis. Scalable Internet Architecture addresses these concerns by teaching you both good and bad design methodologies for building [...]

Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications By Cal Henderson Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly–without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead [...]