Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.
#scalability
Drizzle
“The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-cpu/core architecture. The code is originally derived from MySQL.”
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
A post from one of the FF engineers about how they have a schema-less data store and then build separate indexes to allow for fast querying.
Build Scalable Web 2.0 Sites with Ubuntu, Symfony, and Lighttpd
Build Scalable Web 2.0 Sites with Ubuntu, Symfony, and Lighttpd
Pretty good article covering the installation and set up of the entire stack, specifically targeted at symfony and performance.
MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager
MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager
“A set of flexible scripts to perform monitoring/failover and management of MySQL Master-Master replication cluster configurations.”
MySQL Multi-Master Replication
MySQL Multi-Master Replication
Really nice, quick breakdown of setting up multi-master MySQL replication with slaves hanging off the masters. Slick.
The Linux Virtual Server Project – Linux Server Cluster for Load Balancing
The Linux Virtual Server Project – Linux Server Cluster for Load Balancing
“The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on the Linux operating system.”
10gen
“10gen is a new platform-as-a-service technology designed to help developers quickly and easily build dynamic, scalable, mission critical web sites and applications.”
Varnish
Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator.
ab – Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool – Apache HTTP Server
ab – Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool – Apache HTTP Server
Man page on “ab”, the Apache benchmarking tool.