Amazon Web Services Blog: Cloudbursting - Hybrid Application Hosting
Earlier this week my colleague Deepak Singh pointed me to a blog post written by Thomas Brox Røst. In the post, Thomas talks about how he combined traditional hosting with an EC2-powered, batch mode page regeneration system. His site (Eventseer)...

Facebook | Engineering @ Facebook's Notes
Unlike a three-guys-in-a-garage startup, we don't have the luxury of scaling out infrastructure to keep pace with user growth; when your feature's userbase will go from 0 to 70 million practically overnight, scalability has to be baked in from...

Scalability Worst Practices
In this article, former Orbitz lead architect Brian Zimmer discusses scalability worst pratices. Topics covered include The Golden Hammer, Resource Abuse, Big Ball of Mud, Dependency Management, Timeouts, Hero Pattern, Not Automating, and Monitoring.

Scaling Out
Facebook's two data centres: they append a memcache expiration command in MySQL replication log. Whenever user updates their data a cookie is set and for next 20s the LB uses Level 7 to send them to the master data centre.

fiveruns's data_fabric at master — GitHub
rails sharding plugin

New Relic | Serious about Rails performance
RPM is a Ruby on Rails Performance Management solution that enables developers to quickly and cost effectively detect, diagnose, and fix application performance problems in real time

Strategy: Let Google and Yahoo Host Your Ajax Library - For Free | High Scalability
Yep. . . it's a win/win for Google/Yahoo! and developers, but mostly a win for the *user*.

A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together
I don't need this right now but hopefully in the future one day. I think that's a great site ... HighScalability.com

InfoQ: Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay
As decoupled as one function may be from another, the demands of a single functional area can and will outgrow any single system over time. Or, as we like to remind ourselves, "if you can't split it, you can't scale it."