Big site architecture related things

Lyle - CosmicPerl.com perl at cosmicperl.com
Wed Nov 7 22:25:44 GMT 2007


Edmund von der Burg wrote:
> Thinking about the recent discussions on this ML about big sites and
> so on these links came to mind. I present them for your delectation:
>
> A discussion by Chris Lightfoot on the guts of the downing street
> petition site (the one that had the million signatures for the road
> changing petition early this year). This is also good because the code
> that runs the site is available to look at:
>
>   http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/
>   http://www.mysociety.org/2006/12/08/under-the-bonnet/
>   https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/dir?d=mysociety/pet     # the code
>
> Mock's talk at YAPC::Vienna on how to gather and store large amounts
> of data (agrees with Chris Lightfoot's findings that a single process
> for db inserts is often best).
>
>   http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/talk/683
>   http://sketchfactory.com/static/scaleddata.pdf      # the slides
>
> A collection of posts and links to posts regarding high availability
> sites (which seems to mean high throughput as well). Good for
> provoking thoughts if nothing else:
>
>   http://highscalability.com/
>
> Does anyone else know of useful stuff out there?
>
>
> Cheers,
>   Edmund.
>
>   

Brilliant stuff Edmund, this'll make great reading for me. Thank you.


Lyle


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