LAMP
Scalable Web Architectures and Application State
In this article we follow a hypothetical programmer, Damian, on his quest to make his web application scalable. Read the full article on Bytepawn
LAMP
MySQL
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The 5th annual MySQL Conference & Expo, co-presented by Sun Microsystems, MySQL and O'Reilly Media. Happening April 20-23, 2009 in Santa Clara, CA, at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, brings over 2,000 open source and database enthusiasts together to harness the power
General Discussion
Starting a website from scratch - what technologies should I use?
Hi, if you were to design your own highly scalable website from scratch, what technologies would you use? Based on Web 2.0 popularity, LAMP seems to be high in the running. But would you tack on CakePHP? Drupal? or build your framework/CMS from scratch? What version of Linux
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Lessons from Yahoo, eBay, Orbitz, LinkedIn architecture
In The Architectures You've Always Wondered About track at the Qcon conference, Second Life, eBay, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Orbitz presented how they dealt with different aspects of their applications, such as scalability. There were quite a few lessons that I learned that day that I thought were worth
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Why most large-scale Web sites are not written in Java
There is a lot of information in the blogosphere describing the architecture of many popular sites, such as Google, Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, TypePad, WikiPedia and others. I've summarized this issue in a blog post here I would really appreciate your opinion on this matter.