Scalable Internet Architectures by Theo Schlossnagle. This book was written in 2007 and was way ahead of its time. Never mind the examples being mostly in Perl, this book covers all the little details on what it takes to build scalable web applications. Heck, it even shows you how you can build your own cross-vendor database replicator. A highly recommended read. It's right up there with Release It! by Micheal Nygard, which you should read too.
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- MySQL Performance Blog: Upcoming webinar on Hibernate and Connector/J
- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Storm: the Hadoop of Realtime Stream Processing
- Luigi Montanez: Ten Ruby Conferences (and Three Camps) in Eight Weeks
- New Relic: New Relic and the State of the Stacks - A New Report on Usage of Java, PHP, Python and Ruby
- occasionally useful: Promising Java Installers
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MongoDB as a Key-Value Solution for Logging Events Data
PostgreSQL: meet your queue by Theo Schlossnagle . I really think that cueing your database to publish over AMQP is the bees knees and it turns out I wasn't alone!
Scaling GIS Data in Non-relational Data Store by Mike Malone. How SimpleGEO uses NoSQL and other technologies. Yes, the still use memcached. Caching ain't going anywhere.
CLTV45: The Evolution of the Graph Data Structure from Research to Production . In this recording …
- igvita.com: Future of RDBMS is RAM Clouds & SSD
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: LDAP Directories: The Forgotten NoSQL
- James on Software: Most NoSQL DBs Are Not Scalable
- paperplanes: NoSQL And You - Thoughts On Finding Right Partner In Chrime
- Ruby Inside: Best of RubyFlow: 12 Ruby Links From March 2010
- Viget.com Blogs: NoSQL Misconceptions
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