Here are some of the favorite posts on HighScalability...
- YouTube Architecture
- Hilarious Video: Relational Database Vs NoSQL Fanbois
- Plenty Of Fish Architecture
- Google Architecture
- How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets A Day Using MySQL
- Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster
- Flickr Architecture
- Amazon Architecture
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale
- Stack Overflow Architecture
- 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes
- Google On Latency Tolerant Systems: Making A Predictable Whole Out Of Unpredictable Parts
- An Unorthodox Approach to Database Design : The Coming of the Shard
- Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud
- Startups Are Creating A New System Of The World For IT
- Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing?
- Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
- How will memristors change everything?
- DataSift Architecture: Realtime Datamining At 120,000 Tweets Per Second
- Useful Scalability Blogs
- Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB Of Data
- Scaling Traffic: People Pod Pool of On Demand Self Driving Robotic Cars who Automatically Refuel from Cheap Solar
- Why My Slime Mold Is Better Than Your Hadoop Cluster
- VoltDB Decapitates Six SQL Urban Myths And Delivers Internet Scale OLTP In The Process
- The Canonical Cloud Architecture
- Justin.Tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture
- Why Are Facebook, Digg, And Twitter So Hard To Scale?
- What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?
- Playfish's Social Gaming Architecture - 50 Million Monthly Users And Growing
- The Updated Big List Of Articles On The Amazon Outage
- Using Gossip Protocols For Failure Detection, Monitoring, Messaging And Other Good Things
- The Etsy Saga: From Silos To Happy To Billions Of Pageviews A Month
- How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets A Day Using MySQL
- Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views A Month And Harder To Scale Than Twitter
- Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Linux OS Model In The Cloud?
- The State Of NoSQL In 2012
- Ask HighScalability: Facing Scaling Issues With News Feeds On Redis. Any Advice?
- Facebook Timeline: Brought To You By The Power Of Denormalization
- A Perfect Fifth Of Notes On Scalability
- Cell Architectures
- Netflix: Developing, Deploying, And Supporting Software According To The Way Of The Cloud
- Instagram Architecture: 14 Million Users, Terabytes Of Photos, 100s Of Instances, Dozens Of Technologies
- The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars
- 10 Core Architecture Pattern Variations For Achieving Scalability
- StackExchange Architecture Updates - Running Smoothly, Amazon 4x More Expensive
- Pursue Robust Indefinite Scalability With The Movable Feast Machine
- Tagged Architecture - Scaling To 100 Million Users, 1000 Servers, And 5 Billion Page Views
- 17 Techniques Used To Scale Turntable.Fm And Labmeeting To Millions Of Users
- 5 Scalability Poisons And 3 Cloud Scalability Antidotes
- Must See: 5 Steps To Scaling MongoDB (Or Any DB) In 8 Minutes
- What Google App Engine Price Changes Say About The Future Of Web Architecture
- The Three Ages Of Google - Batch, Warehouse, Instant
- Big List Of 20 Common Bottlenecks
- Strategy: Run A Scalable, Available, And Cheap Static Site On S3 Or GitHub
- Paper: The Akamai Network - 61,000 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries
- LevelDB - Fast And Lightweight Key/Value Database From The Authors Of MapReduce And BigTable
- Jim Starkey Is Creating A Brave New World By Rethinking Databases For The Cloud
- Peecho Architecture - Scalability On A Shoestring
- Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too: Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossus, Quick Turnaround
- 11 Common Web Use Cases Solved In Redis
- TripAdvisor Architecture - 40M Visitors, 200M Dynamic Page Views, 30TB Data
- 35+ Use Cases For Choosing Your Next NoSQL Database
- 101 Questions To Ask When Considering A NoSQL Database
- Awesome List Of Advanced Distributed Systems Papers
- Stack Overflow Makes Slow Pages 100x Faster By Simple SQL Tuning
- Heroku Emergency Strategy: Incident Command System And 8 Hour Ops Rotations For Fresh Minds
- 6 Ways Not To Scale That Will Make You Hip, Popular And Loved By VCs
- Aztec Empire Strategy: Use Dual Pipes In Your Aqueduct For High Availability
- Did The Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?
- Facebook's New Realtime Analytics System: HBase To Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
- 6 Lessons From Dropbox - One Million Files Saved Every 15 Minutes
- This Stuff Isn't Taught, You Learn It Bit By Bit As You Solve Each Problem.
- Is Node.Js Becoming A Part Of The Stack? SimpleGeo Says Yes.
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Google Pro Tip: Use Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculations To Choose The Best Design
- Netflix: Continually Test By Failing Servers With Chaos Monkey
- 7 Design Patterns For Almost-Infinite Scalability
- What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?
- GPU Vs CPU Smackdown : The Rise Of Throughput-Oriented Architectures
- 8 Commonly Used Scalable System Design Patterns
- Great Introductory Video On Scalability From Harvard Computer Science
- Facebook's New Real-Time Messaging System: HBase To Store 135+ Billion Messages A Month
- Facebook At 13 Million Queries Per Second Recommends: Minimize Request Variance
- Machine VM + Cloud API - Rewriting The Cloud From Scratch
- 10 Golden Principles For Building Successful Mobile/Web Applications
- Troubles With Sharding - What Can We Learn From The Foursquare Incident?
- Google's Colossus Makes Search Real-Time By Dumping MapReduce
- 6 Ways To Kill Your Servers - Learning How To Scale The Hard Way
- Misco: A MapReduce Framework For Mobile Systems - Start Of The Ambient Cloud?
- Scaling An AWS Infrastructure - Tools And Patterns
- Vertical Scaling Ascendant - How Are SSDs Changing Architectures?
- Think Of Latency As A Pseudo-Permanent Network Partition
- 7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used To Grow To 500 Million Users
- How Can We Spark The Movement Of Research Out Of The Ivory Tower And Into Production?
- Big Data Counting: How To Count A Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory
- Google: Taming The Long Latency Tail - When More Machines Equals Worse Results
- Ask For Forgiveness Programming - Or How We'll Program 1000 Cores
- Grace Hopper To Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds!
- The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Blekko’s NoSQL Database
- The Anatomy Of Search Technology: Crawling Using Combinators
- C Is For Compute - Google Compute Engine (GCE)
- 10 Golden Principles For Building Successful Mobile/Web Applications
- The Performance Of Distributed Data-Structures Running On A "Cache-Coherent" In-Memory Data Grid
- MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) And Familiar (SQL)
- Prismatic Architecture - Using Machine Learning On Social Networks To Figure Out What You Should Read On The Web
- Changing Architectures: New Datacenter Networks Will Set Your Code And Data Free
- MemSQL Architecture - The Fast (MVCC, InMem, LockFree, CodeGen) And Familiar (SQL)
- Prismatic Architecture - Using Machine Learning On Social Networks To Figure Out What You Should Read On The Web
- Vertical Scaling Ascendant - How Are SSDs Changing Architectures?
- 10 Golden Principles For Building Successful Mobile/Web Applications
- The Clever Ways Chrome Hides Latency By Anticipating Your Every Need
- An Epic TripAdvisor Update: Why Not Run On The Cloud? The Grand Experiment.
- Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In
- Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe for Making 1 Million TPS on $5K Hardware
- Sharding The Hibernate Way
- The Mother Of All Database Normalization Debates On Coding Horror
- Log Everything All The Time
- Scaling Secret #2: Denormalizing Your Way To Speed And Profit
- Strategy: Diagonal Scaling - Don't Forget To Scale Out AND Up
- Paper: On Designing And Deploying Internet-Scale Services
- ZooKeeper - A Reliable, Scalable Distributed Coordination System
- GridGain: One Compute Grid, Many Data Grids
- Scaling Spam Eradication Using Purposeful Games: Die Spammer Die!
- Google AppEngine - A Second Look
- Cloud Programming Directly Feeds Cost Allocation Back Into Software Design
- Paper: The End Of An Architectural Era (It’s Time For A Complete Rewrite)
- At Some Point The Cost Of Servers Outweighs The Cost Of Programmers
- Drop ACID And Think About Data
- How To Succeed At Capacity Planning Without Really Trying : An Interview With Flickr's John Allspaw On His New Book
- How Google Serves Data From Multiple Datacenters
- Strategy: Break Up The Memcache Dog Pile
- Building Scalable Systems Using Data As A Composite Material
- MySQL And Memcached: End Of An Era?
- Seven Signs You May Need A NoSQL Database
- 7 Lessons Learned While Building Reddit To 270 Million Page Views A Month
- How Can We Spark The Movement Of Research Out Of The Ivory Tower And Into Production?
- 6 Ways To Kill Your Servers - Learning How To Scale The Hard Way
- Machine VM + Cloud API - Rewriting The Cloud From Scratch
- Heroku Emergency Strategy: Incident Command System And 8 Hour Ops Rotations For Fresh Minds
- 6 Ways Not To Scale That Will Make You Hip, Popular And Loved By VCs
- Google+ Is Built Using Tools You Can Use Too: Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossus, Quick Turnaround
- How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets A Day Using MySQL
Posts Teaching The Basics
- 7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used To Grow To 500 Million Users
- The 7 Stages Of Scaling Web Apps
- The 4 Building Blocks Of Architecting Systems For Scale
- Scalability for Dummies by Sebastian Kreutzberger
- Great Introductory Video On Scalability From Harvard Computer Science
- The 7 Stages Of Scaling Web Apps
- Five Ways To Stop Framework Fixation From Crashing Your Scaling Strategy
- What's Your Scalability Plan?
- Some Facebook Secrets To Better Operations
- Papers: Readings In Distributed Systems
- Learn How To Think At Scale
- Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
- The Canonical Cloud Architecture
- How Google Taught Me To Cache And Cash-In
- 8 Commonly Used Scalable System Design Patterns
- Google Pro Tip: Use Back-Of-The-Envelope-Calculations To Choose The Best Design
- Awesome List Of Advanced Distributed Systems Papers