Hi, Trey. I'd like to recommend On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services James Hamilton - Windows Live Services Platform (currently at Amazon) November 2007
http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/hamilton/hamilton_html/ I've added this to the nascent guide to system administration body of knowledge at https://lopsa.org/content/sabok Best, -at On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Trey Darley <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey there, LOPSA hivemind! Greets from Sunny Brussels. > > I routinely bump into people trying to cook a web startup. Fairly > typical is one guy with an idea and a bit of technical ability trying to > get a product to market without much capital expenditure. > > I find myself having this conversation repeatedly where someone doesn't > have customer one *yet* but they're trying to already think about > scaling to $really_large_number. I think, really, there is some > low-hanging fruit for such cases. Premature optimization is the root of > all evil, true, but on the other hand one can also make early > architectural choices that impose otherwise avoidable scalability limits. > > Why am I writing? Two things: > > 0) Does a sort of ten commandments, dos and don'ts of scalability for > tech startups exist? (I don't want to reinvent the wheel.) > > 1) Given the above, wouldn't this be a valuable addition to the LOPSA > site? (Rather like the old tools database, which sadly seems to have > disappeared.) If we put our brains together and thrash out a useful 'ten > commandments of scalability' page we could post/upvote it on HN and > thereby garner some nice publicity for LOPSA. > > Cheers, > - --Trey > > P.S. Speaking of which, lopsa.org seems rather unresponsive. Is it just > me? Perhaps this ought to be addressed before (hypothetically) driving a > bunch of HN traffic to the site. :-/ > ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ > Trey Darley - Brussels > mobile: +32/494.766.080 > twitter: @treyka > ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ > Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk6usBYACgkQQXaSM49tivCk6QCfSJQHnzLDeqJFqTRlcJ5iFdx1 > QrAAmwb0q5EQ2jHy9EQb3McDBgryuZea > =3RUW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
