multithreading - High Scalability

Linux

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, ‘threads’ were a programming novelty rarely used and seldom trusted. In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed,

Strategy

AppBackplane - A Framework for Supporting Multiple Application Architectures

Hidden in every computer is a hardware backplane for moving signals around. Hidden in every application are ways of moving messages around and giving code CPU time to process them. Unhiding those capabilities and making them first class facilities for the programmer to control is the idea behind AppBackplane. This

Memcached

Scaling Memcached: 500,000+ Operations/Second with a Single-Socket UltraSPARC T2

A software-based distributed caching system such as memcached is an important piece of today's largest Internet sites that support millions of concurrent users and deliver user-friendly response times. The distributed nature of memcached design transforms 1000s of servers into one large caching pool with gigabytes of memory per

multithreading

Thread Pool Engine in MS CLR 4, and Work-Stealing scheduling algorithm

I just saw this article in HFadeel blog that spaek about Parallelism in .NET Framework 4, and how Thread Pool work, and the most faoums scheduling algorithm : Work-stealing algorithm. With preisnation to see it in action.

Java

Scaling MySQL on a 256-way T5440 server using Solaris ZFS and Java 1.7

How to scale MySQL on a 32 core system with 256 threads? Diagonal scalability in a box. An impressive benchmark that achieved more than 79,000 SQL queries per second on a single 4 RU server! Is this real? If so what is the role of good old horizontal scalability?

Java

Sun's High-Performance and Reliable Web Proxy Solution

As individuals and businesses depend on the Web more than ever to conduct business, rapid and reliable content retrieval is critical. Reducing wait time improves productivity and increases user satisfaction. Web proxy technology has emerged as an effective solution to improve performance, help ensure content availability and enhance network security

web 2.0

An Open Source Web Solution - Lighttpd Web Server and Chip Multithreading Technology

With more users interacting, working, purchasing, and communicating over the network than ever before, Web 2.0 infrastructure is taking center stage in many organizations. Demand is rising, and companies are looking for ways to tackle the performance and scalability needs placed on Web infrastructure without raising IT operational expenses.