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January 11, 2009

17 Distributed Systems and Web Scalability Resources
No long write-ups this week, just a short list of some great resources that I've found very inspirational and thought provoking.
I've broken these resources up into two lists: Blogs and Presentations.
Blogs
The blogs listed below are ones that I subscribe to and are filled with some great posts about capacity planning, scalability
problems and solutions, and distributed system information. Each blog is authored by exceptionally smart people and many
of them have significant experience building production-level scalable systems.
Nati Shalom's Blog: Discussions about middleware and distributed technologies
http://natishalom.typepad.com/nati_shaloms_blog/
All Things Distributed: Werner Vogels' weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
High Scalability: Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites
http://highscalability.com/
ProductionScale: Information Technology, Scalability, Technology Operations, and Cloud Computing
http://www.productionscale.com/
iamcal.com
http://www.iamcal.com/ (the "talks" section is particularly interesting)
Kitchen Soap: Thoughts on capacity planning and web operations
http://www.kitchensoap.com/
MySQL Performance Blog: Everything about MySQL Performance
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/

Presentations
The presentations listed below are from the SlideShare site and are primarily the slides used to accompany scalability talks
from around the world. Many of them outline the problems that various companies have encountered during their non-linear
growth phases and how they've solved them by scaling their systems.
Scalable Internet Architectures
http://www.slideshare.net/shiflett/scalable-internet-architectures
How to build the Web
http://www.slideshare.net/simon/how-to-build-the-web
Netlog: What we learned about scalability & high availability
http://www.slideshare.net/folke/netlog-what-we-learned-about-scalability-high-availability-430211
Database Sharding at Netlog
http://www.slideshare.net/oemebamo/database-sharding-at-netlog-presentation
MySQL 2007 Techn At Digg V3
http://www.slideshare.net/epee/mysql-2007-tech-at-digg-v3
Flickr and PHP
http://www.slideshare.net/coolpics/flickr-44054
Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches
http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/scalable-web-architectures-common-patterns-and-approaches

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How to scale your web app

http://www.slideshare.net/Georgio_1999/how-to-scale-your-web-app
Google Cluster Innards
http://www.slideshare.net/ultradvorka/google-cluster-innards
Sharding Architectures
http://www.slideshare.net/guest0e6d5e/sharding-architectures
If anyone knows of some that I've missed (I'm sure there are many), please list them in the comments and I'll add them to the
lists above.
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Comments

Here is another scalability blog that you might find interesting.

http://akfpartners.com/techblog/
Posted by: Mike | January 11, 2009 at 11:00 PM

Thank you for the excellent scalability resources. The HighScalability blog, included in your list, helped us a lot scale DriverMax.
Posted by: DriverMax CEO | January 12, 2009 at 01:55 AM

The guys at HighScalability.com have recently featured one of the posts from my blog on their site:
http://www.udidahan.com/2008/12/29/building-super-scalable-web-systems-with-rest/
I have gathered several hundred of these kinds of posts in my blog over the years and think that readers may find some value there as well:
http://www.UdiDahan.com?blog=true
Thanks.
Posted by: Udi Dahan | January 12, 2009 at 03:52 AM

Thanks again Max :) You've given me ALOT to read!!

Posted by: Stephen Hill | January 12, 2009 at 09:36 AM

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