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August 2010

High Scalability - High Scalability - 6 Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way

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Interesting article about scaling a website : caching, alternative webserver, replication, take care of not messing the filesystem, ... The comments are interesting too.

March 2010

High Scalability - High Scalability - Digg: 4000% Performance Increase by Sorting in PHP Rather than MySQL

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O'Reilly Radar's James Turner conducted a very informative interview with Joe Stump, current CTO of SimpleGeo and former lead architect at Digg, in which Joe makes some of his usually insightful comments on his experience using Cassandra vs MySQL.

Developing scalable PHP applications using MongoDB - PHP Classes blog - PHP Classes

Nowadays there is a new kind of databases that is getting very popular, specially for Web development, including the PHP world, which are the NoSQL databases. This article focus specifically on MongoDB, despite there are several other NoSQL database implementations.