Nati Shalom’s Blog: Why most large-scale Web sites are not written in Java
…similar solutions for addressing the scalability challenges:
On the Data Tier we see the following:
1. Adding a caching layer to take advantage of memory resources availability and reduce I/O overhead
2. Moving from a database-centric approach to partitioning, aka shards
On the Business Logic Tier:
3. Adding [...]

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Cary Millsap, former VP of Oracle’s System Performance Group and the cofounder of Hotsos.
…doing things an application doesn’t need to do is exactly what makes it slow, unscalable, and—in the end—economically inefficient.

Don’t run reports that nobody reads.
Don’t generate more output than you need.
Don’t execute a business process any more often than the business needs.
Don’t write [...]

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Musings on software » Why choose cmp
…consider the strengths in performance and reduction in development that can be added by leveraging a high-quality CMP container as opposed to developing data access logic using a BMP architecture. I guarantee you’ll be happy with the results.
Excellent post! I couldn’t agree more, the debate mirrors the one around [...]

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Intel Developer Forum - Keynote Webcasts
Intel Developer Forum

Steve Pawlowski and Ofri Wechsler: Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and Usages
Paolo A. Gargini: Intel’s Silicon R&D Pipeline
The keynotes of Pat P. Gelsinger (Digital Enterprise), Sean M. Maloney (Mobility), Donald J. MacDonald (The Digital Home) and Justin R. Rattner (Opening Keynote)

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The Multicore Computer Forum Series “ explor[es] the benefits and challenges of Multicore computing.”

High Performance Throughput Computing, Dr. Marc Tremblay, Sun Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Architect, Sun’s Scalable Systems Group
Software and the Concurrency Revolution, Herb Sutter, Microsoft
Architecture Support for Parallel Programming, Dr. Kunle Olukotun, Associate Professor, Stanford University

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