tony at lbdigest dot com.
I may even use your question as a post so that it may help others (anonymous, if you so choose).
I came upon an interesting post by Leonard Lin, a developer and (according to Linked In) former Yahoo!-er. It’s called Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition, and talks about issues with scaling a rapidly expanding application infrastructure.
Among the things I like about the article (including the word Asshattery, which is one of my favorite words, [...]
When shopping for an SSL acceleration device, whether it’s integrated into a load balancer or a stand-alone device, I’ve noticed people tend to vastly overestimate their needs when it comes to TPS (Transactions per Second).
Users might balk at 1,000 TPS. After all, 1,000 SSL TPS just doesn’t sound like a lot. So how [...]
I posted this in reference to a question about load balancing database servers. It’s a PowerPoint given at a PHP conference in ‘05 given by John Allspaw of Flickr. It’s quite a good read, and talks about challenges that they faced when massively scaling an appliance load balancing solution for MySQL.
