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Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr). # 27th April 2007, 8:41 pm

Scaling Twitter (via) Slides from Blaine’s recent talk. # 23rd April 2007, 11:02 am

Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases. Ryan Tomayko explains how his team spreads a high traffic Rails application across five separate PostgreSQL databases by giving each client their own schema—similar to how WordPress MU scales. # 14th April 2007, 2:32 am

Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites. Slides from a talk at PyCon. Be sure to switch to the notes view (Ø in the bottom right)—a really nice overview of scaling up from a CGIs to load balanced, memcached Python application servers. # 4th March 2007, 9:14 pm

Data::ObjectDriver. Benjamin Trott’s Perl ORM, with built in support for both caching and data partitioning. I think this is what Six Apart uses for Vox. # 25th February 2007, 12:43 am

A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels. 4000 requests/second on 48 mongrels behind a hardware load balancer. # 5th February 2007, 12:38 am

Inside MySpace.com. Case study of scaling against a network effect. Includes pretty honest coverage of the mistakes made along the way, although the article was put together second hand from conference presentations rather than from interviews. # 17th January 2007, 9:18 am

Curse launches with Django platform. Handles 500k visits/hour! # 14th December 2006, 3:02 am

The Architecture of Mailinator. 3 million e-mails a day on a 2GHz server with 1GB of RAM. # 7th December 2006, 3:11 pm

punupgeek.com on Active Resource. Looks like 37 signals might be looking in to scaling across multiple servers using web services. # 26th June 2006, 11:12 am

Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads. Relates to the shared-nothing architecture. # 12th April 2005, 2:06 pm

Photo Matt: RSS Bandwidth Usage. Matt makes the case for RSS scaling just fine if you’re smart about it. # 10th September 2004, 2:48 am

Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation (via) Bruce Sterling on scaling up his annual SxSW party. I can’t believe I missed it htis year. # 22nd May 2004, 8:35 pm

New Technorati Infrastructure beta test! (via) It certainly feels faster # 20th January 2004, 10:36 pm