InfoQ Homepage Performance Content on InfoQ
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tuning
Keith Adams shares HHVM insights showing how a system can become very performant if it is well tuned.
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Grails SOA: Building Distributed Scalable Services with Grails and RabbitMQ
Steve Pember discusses creating Grails applications integrating message broker technologies, especially RabbitMQ, and applying SOA principles.
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Design, Composition, and Performance
This talk will explore the nature of design and composition and how it impacts our approach to software development practice and tools.
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Partitions for Everyone!
Kyle Kingsbury discusses some of the limitations found in distributed systems and the way some of them behave under partitioning.
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One to Many: The Story of Sharding at Box
Tamar Bercovici presents Box’s transition from a single MySQL database to a fully sharded MySQL architecture, all the while serving 2 billion queries per day.
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Which Is Easier? 100T-10M or 10M-1B
Zoltan Toth-Czifra shares scalability lessons learned at Softonic, a company that has developed and grew along with the Internet for over 15 years.
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Scaling out with Akka Actors
Joshua Suereth designs a scalable distributed search service with Akka and Scala using actors, and covering practical aspects of how to scale out with Akka’s clustering API.
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High Speed Smart Data Ingest into Hadoop
Oleg Zhurakousky discusses architectural tradeoffs and alternative implementations of real-time high speed data ingest into Hadoop.
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Making the Internet a Better Place: Scaling AppNexus
Mike Nolet shares lessons learned scaling AppNexus and architectural details of their system processing 30TB/day: Hadoop, DNS built in GSLB and Keepalived, and real-time data streaming built in C.
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MySQL Usage of Web Applications with 1 User and 100 Million
Peter Boros discusses a MySQL architecture useful for the majority of projects, backup, online schema changes, reliability and scalability issues, and basics of sharding.
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You Can Improve Scalability over 10 Years
Marton Anka shares lessons learned and technical details scaling LogMeIn over a decade.
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Resiliency through Failure - Netflix's Approach to Extreme Availability in the Cloud
Ariel Tseitlin discusses Netflix' failure-based suite of tools, collectively called the Simian Army, used to improve resiliency and maintain the cloud environment.