Seven Stages of Scaling Web Applications

Startups that are grappling with the challenges of scaling their webapp would do well to check out this awesome slide deck about scalability from the CTO of Rackspace, one of the high end web hosting companies. Delivered at the LinuxWorld conference in August earlier this year, the deck lays down a framework for webapp scalability, milestoning ...

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 ...