Scaling in the Real World

In our ongoing journey to deliver faster, more reliable shopping carts, email marketing and hosting solutions, we're always on the lookout for new technologies and techniques to deal with a lot of data.

I'd like to share a few presentations we recently came across, that talk about scaling in the real world:

* MySpace: Massive scaling a .Net website with the Microsoft Robotic Studio
* Twitter: Big Data in Real-Time at Twitter
* Scale at Facebook
* Yahoo: Selectively Materializing User's Event Feeds
* Four Kitchens: Scalable queuing with flexible service levels
* Cassandra at Mahalo
* Cassandra at CloudKick