Loved these thoughts from the outgoing Chief Data Scientist of the White House:
h/t ma.tt
“Instant flexibility for web applications Painlessly add, scale and adjust individual components”
Real World Web: Performance & Scalability
Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.
Apparently Internet Explorer uses a stupid default resizing method, which causes images to pixelate when they are made smaller via HTML. Add this CSS extension to smooth things out.
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
“A set of flexible scripts to perform monitoring/failover and management of MySQL Master-Master replication cluster configurations.”
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 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.”
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
Interesting presentation looking at XMPP and how to use it to build web services.
scaling drupal – an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin
Great notes on some common scaling arrangements for web apps (focussed on Drupal, but applicable to other architectures).