Lots of interesting updates today.
But would like to first mention the fantastic work Cloud computing group at UCSB are doing to make appengine framework more open. They have done significant work at making appscale “work” with different kinds of data sources including HBase, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, Hypertable and Mysql and MemcacheDB. Appscale is actively [...]

There have been a lot of interesting stories from last week for me to share. If you have interesting links you want to add to this post please forward them to me or post a comment to this post.

Sun is planning to acquire majority stake of “Cluster File Systems, Inc“. [ Talk on Lustre [...]

A 55 minute talk by ‘ Stewart Smith’ from MySQL AB, about Mysql Clusters. He talks about NDB storage engine and synchronous replication between storage nodes. Also talks about new features in 5.1 including cluster to cluster replication, disk based data and a bunch of other things. And another Mysql talk on Google about Performance [...]

I found a very interesting story on how memcached was created. Its an old story titled “Distributed caching with memcached“. I also found an interesting FAQ on memcached which some of you might like.
Inside Myspace is another old story which follows Myspace’s growth over time. Its a very long and interesting read which shouldn’t be [...]

8/19/2007
Big Bad Postgres SQL

8/19/2007
Scalable internet architectures

8/19/2007
Production troubleshooting (not related to scalability)

8/19/2007
Clustered Logging with mod_log_spread

8/19/2007
Understanding and Building HA/LB clusters

8/12/2007
Multi-Master Mysql Replication

8/12/2007
Large-Scale Methodologies for the World Wide Web

8/12/2007
Scaling gracefully

8/12/2007
Implementing Tag cloud – The nasty way

8/12/2007
Normalized Data is for sissies

8/12/2007
APC at facebook

8/6/2007
Plenty Of fish interview with its CEO

8/6/2007
PHP scalability myth

8/6/2007
High performance PHP

8/6/2007
Digg: PHP’s scalability and Performance td>

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
Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce Used on Large Data Sets

6/23/2007
Video
Seattle Conference on Scalability: [...]