Intro

Here are a few links related to scalability, including some from http://highscalability.com/, in particular thoses from the Real Life Architectures section.

• Salesforce Architecture - How They Handle 1.3 Billion Transactions A Day

• The Easy Way Of Building A Growing Startup Architecture Using HAProxy, PHP, Redis And MySQL To Handle 1 Billion Requests A Week

• The Real News Is Not That Facebook Serves Up 1 Trillion Pages A Month…

• Facebook’s New Real-Time Messaging System: HBase To Store 135+ Billion Messages A Month

• Facebook Secrets Of Web Performance

• How To Make An Infinitely Scalable Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)

• StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews A Month, 25 Servers, And It’s All About Performance

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NoSQL

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
• http://prestodb.io/
• http://www.aerospike.com/

Netflix

• Introducing Raigad - An Elasticsearch Sidecar
• Using Presto in our Big Data Platform on AWS

Sharding

Shard (database architecture)

Shared nothing architecture

Database Sharding

Sharding vs. Having multiple databases

Database design in SaaS platforms

http://bigdatascalability.com/ (book)

Native distributed search example: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch