Archive for the 'Scalabilty' Category

Speeding up next-generation networking

An interessting talk (local copy) from Van Jacobson and Bob Felderman from the Linux.conf.au 2006 about the history and future of implementing networking stacks:

“The way we’ve always done it is not necessarily the same as the right way to do it”
The background is that the networking stacks we know today were initially created for MULTICS [...]

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

The only real problem is scaling…

“The only real problem is scaling. All others inherent are from that one.
If you can scale, everything else must be working.”
MPLS Conference (Nov. 1998) – Mike O’Dell, Chief Scientist, UUNet

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If you are interessed in background information on high-scalabilty web solutions and you are not a religious IBM-, HP-, $wahteverbigcompany-believer highscalability.com might be worth reading for [...]

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008