Treasure trove of scalability stories - Flickr, Digg, FeedBurner, LiveJournal, SixApart, Last.fm, Twitter, Wordpress

If you are having sleepless nights about scaling your website to take on a 3x/10x/100X loadburst in a short time, here's a resource that many will be willing to pay a king's ransom for. These are a bunch of presentations about some of the biggest websites in the world and their scalability stories (I call them ...

Webapp Scalability woes…getting your MYSQL database to run fast & clean

This post is for the techies & geeks. Just sharing this wonderful resource, that's currently one of the most popular slide decks on slideshare. This is a presentation on MySQL tuning, from somebody who works at MYSQL. Titled "15 Ways to Kill your MYSQL peformance", it's a straight-from-the-pits, hands on presentation on how to get the ...