Info on DB scalability

A good talk on DB Scalability and the various approaches.
http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3261223/

Nice summary of NoSQL options

http://cattell.net/datastores/Datastores.pdf

cassandra at twitter

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/407159447/cassandra-twitter-an-interview-with-ryan-king

 

Message Queue Comparison

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Message_Queue_Evaluation_Notes

cassandra data model

 

http://arin.me/blog/wtf-is-a-supercolumn-cassandra-data-model

 

Scaling Hibernate + postgres

 

http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/jbw/jmlodgenski_940_scaling_hibernate.pdf

 

jfastlz

Found it!

A Fast LZ compression in Java

http://code.google.com/p/jfastlz/

port of

http://www.fastlz.org/

 

MIT License

Postgres + Memcache == Chocolate + Peanut Butter?

There might be something cool here.. but I can't really tell because I
can't really find any documentation on it.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgmemcache/

Update: here you go:

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~seanc/pgmemcache/pgmemcache.pdf

Not quite as magic as I had hoped.. 

Dig in:

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-is-right-way-to-measure-scale.html

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/

Also need to find a fast compression algo, that is not burdened with
GPL nonsense:
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/

Cache effects

http://igoro.com/archive/gallery-of-processor-cache-effects/

 

Ok, I admit that lately I have been cribbing a lot of these articles off of Reddit.

Here is my obligatory link Karma:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

 

 

Comparison of various Serialization techniques

http://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/

 

Comprehension Failure:

Tomcat documentation comprehension failure:

 

https://sec1.woopra.com/docs/manager-howto.html

 

WARNING: even if it doesn't make many sense, and is always a bad idea, calling a Catalina task more than once, badly set Ant tasks depends chains may cause that a task be called more than once in the same Ant run, even if not intended to. A bit of caution should be exercised when you are capturing output from that task, because this could lead to something unexpected: