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
Facebook
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.
Mollom Architecture - Killing Over 373 Million Spams At 100 Requests Per Second
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
