RT @highscalability: [5 Scalability Poisons and 3 Cloud Scalability Antidotes] http://bit.ly/qgxcbI

Use academic literature; Plan for failure; Disk tech matters (SSD); Large data sets need horizontal scalability http://bit.ly/djK4Mo

Insights into the performance of Microsoft big clusters http://bit.ly/9u4iUz scalability

Google dumps batch oriented MapReduce for Instant in favor of trigger (!) like database functions http://bit.ly/d4I1Vb scalability

Scalability Patterns http://bit.ly/aSHT37 programming architecture

Terminate SSL connections in hardware; Reduce server count http://bit.ly/chQWOL scalability

Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning to Scale the Hard Way http://bit.ly/agKsNK scalability

Facebook Scalability - platform overhaul tech changes; developer issues; Scribe; "reasonable reliability" http://ping.fm/AhqaQ

Lessons Learned - Reddit 270M Page Views/Month http://bit.ly/9BXRHT scalability

Sify architecture - 3900 Requests/sec; no databases - solr http://bit.ly/aUZK6m scalability

Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources http://bit.ly/aurXjt cloud

Caching 404s [hit by spiders] Saved The Onion 66% on Server Time http://bit.ly/cqMrYI scalability