Google Speed initiative

Let's make the web faster

Great initiative with already a good set of tutorials and compilation of tools, and potentially an active community.

The IBM Exploratory Stream Processing Systems group is working on highly scalable stream processing platforms and applications

  • Parallel and high performance stream processing software platform capable of scaling over a range of hardware capability
  • Agile and automated reconfiguration in response to changing user objectives, available data, and the intrinsic variability of system resource availability
  • Incremental tasking in the face of rapidly changing data forms and types
  • Secure, privacy-compliant, and auditable execution environment
  • And take a look at the IBM press release announcing System S a "stream computing" software directly based on this research.

    Art of scalability - Scalability principles

    Good introduction or refresher for people having to deal with scalability issues or architecting some services that will need to be scalable. See the series at hfadeel.comCouple this series with his Performance Anti-Patterns post and you'll get a good overview.

    Comment: those posts are just scratching the surface of scalability, and is missing for people starting to deal with scalability a list of good resources providing more specific details and information. I guess I could do something here...