(via reddit programming)
Very lengthy overview of performance and scalability issues for web systems by Ask Bjorne Hansen. This presentation covers a vast range of information:
Real World Web Scalability (warning large PDF)
The takeaway? Create horizontally scalable distributed systems.. always.
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