Strategy
Alan Watts once observed how after we accepted Descartes' separation of the mind and body we've been trying to smash them back together again ever since when really they were never separate to begin with. The database normalization-denormalization dualism has the same mobius shaped reverberations as Descartes&
CDN
Playing like the big boys may be getting cheaper. The big boys, like YouTube, farm the serving of their most popular videos to a third party CDN. A lot of people were surprised YouTube didn't serve all their content themselves, but it makes sense. It allows them to
Product
Cacti is a network statistics graphing tool designed as a frontend to RRDtool's data storage and graphing functionality. It is intended to be intuitive and easy to use, as well as robust and scalable. It is generally used to graph time-series data like CPU load and bandwidth use.
Strategy
This scalability strategy is brought to you by Erik Osterman: My recommendations for anyone dealing with explosive growth on a limited budget with lots of cachable content (e.g. content capable of returning valid expiration headers) is employ a reverse proxy as mentioned in this article. In the last week,
EC2
Excellent article on using Hadoop in Amazon's services environment to solve real problems for very little money. It's excellent because it shows how the stack works together and it actually seems like something a real human could do.
Product
All APIs are different. At its core, an API provides direct access deep into a web service (lower case - a service that is provided on the web) and turns it into a Web Service (upper case) that people can use as a building block. What makes it an API
Cluster File System
MogileFS is an open source distributed filesystem. Its properties and features include: Application level, No single point of failure, Automatic file replication, Better than RAID, Flat Namespace, Shared-Nothing, No RAID required, Local filesystem agnostic.
Product
Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJournal.com, a site which was already doing 20 million+ dynamic page views per day
Book
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
In the Amazon Services architecture article the podcast mentions Mashery. I went to their site at http://www.mashery.com/, but I can't quite figure out what it is. They want to: Unleash and manage channels for your API responsibly with Mashery’s combination of security, usage, access
Product
Update: Speed up Apache - how I went from F to A in YSlow. Good example of using YSlow to speed up a website with solid code examples. Every layer in the multi-layer cake that is your website contributes to how long a page takes to display. YSlow, from Yahoo,
Product
SmarterStats provides a solid architecture businesses and individual end users can use to track growth and forecast internet trends. * Track your website's growth and forecast internet trends * Features over 130 report items, plus Geographic Reporting * Log comparison saving 90% of your disk space * Email Reports available in Enterprise