The recent Slashdot discussion points out how hard it is to learn about system scalability, unless you already are working for a company that’s in the business of building large scalable systems. However, Google’s recent Seattle conference on scalability brought videos of some pretty interesting talks to the Web.
System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets by Jeff Dean, Google
Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing by Khalid Ahmed, Platform Computing Corp.
YouTube Scalability by Cuong Do Cuong
Lessons In Building Scalable Systems by Reza Behforooz, Google Talk
Using MapReduce on Large Geographic Datasets by Barry Brumitt, Google, Inc.
Scaling Google for Every User by Marissa Mayer, Google
SCTPs Reliability and Fault Tolerance
VeriSign’s Global DNS Infrastucture
Lustre File System by Peter Braam, Cluster File Systems
