EC2
Amazon's EC2 sounds good, but how do you make use of all that throbbing CPU power? A few companies are stepping up to fill the how-to gap. Elastra provides unlimited on-demand creation of MySQL and PostgresSQL instances for $.50/server/hour. They contend their clusters perform "nearly&
Strategy
This JoelOnSoftware thread asks the age old question of what and how to log. The usual trace/error/warning/info advice is totally useless in a large scale distributed system. Instead, you need to log everything all the time so you can solve problems that have already happened across a
Problems
Skype's 220 millions users lost service for a stunning two days. The primary cause for Skype's nightmare (can you imagine the beeper storm that went off?) was a massive global roll-out of a Window's patch triggering the simultaneous reboot of millions of machines across
Product
Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and will take full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems. Varnish was written from the ground up to be a
General Discussion
I was looking at the pingdom infrastructure matrix (http://royal.pingdom.com/royalfiles/0702_infrastructure_matrix.pdf) and I saw that no sites are using Postgresql, and then I searched through highscalability.com and saw very few mentions of postgresql. Are there any examples of high-traffic sites that use postgresql?
General Discussion
Hi, Some of the articles of the site claims profiling is essential. Is there any established approach to profiling WEB apps? Or it too much depends on technologies used?
Example
Wikimedia is the platform on which Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and the other seven wiki dwarfs are built on. This document is just excellent for the student trying to scale the heights of giant websites. It is full of details and innovative ideas that have been proven on some of the most
Strategy
Amazingly TechCrunch runs their website on one web server and one database server, according to the fascinating survey What the Web’s most popular sites are running on by Pingdom, a provider of uptime and response time monitoring. Early we learned PlentyOfFish catches and releases many millions of hits a
Data Center
That's what people at the NGDC Conference get together and talk about. A lot of interesting subjects: data center virtualization HPC & grid; advanced facilitates management and planning; advanced network and services; applications; data center optimization and security; managing and protecting information. The Grid – Distributed Computing at Scale
Example
TypePad is considered the largest paid blogging service in the world. After experience problems because of their meteoric growth, they eventually transitioned to an architecture patterned after their sister company, LiveJournal. Site: http://www.typepad.com/ The Platform MySQL Memcached Perl MogileFS Apache Linux The Stats As of 2005 TypePad
General Discussion
The questions was extracted from: /plentyoffish-architecture#comment-126 For startup like Markus, what is the best hosting option (and grow more later)? host your own server or use ISP co-location option? He still has to pay huge money on the bandwidth with that payload, right?
Find out with Builtwith.com. It scans a site and guesses how the site is built. I ran it on this site and it said: Apache, Windows, PHP, Adsense, RSS, CSS, Javascript, and UTF-8 encoding. Correct, yet I think it should have guessed Drupal was the CMS and it should