Scalability

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Related topics: Performance, Reliability

In telecommunications and software engineering, scalability is a desirable property of a system, a network, or a process, which indicates its ability to either handle growing amounts of work in a graceful manner, or to be readily enlarged.

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Conference Series about Scalability

• Google Seattle Conference on Scalability
• Velocity

Presentations about Scalability

• MySQL and PHP – State of the Union given by Hans Zaunere at Web Performance for PHP Developers (NY WebPerf, Jun 2009) on 16 June 2009
• Cloudera Hadoop Training: Thinking at Scale given by Aaron Kimball at Cloudera's Basic Hadoop Training on 12 March 2009
• Hypertable - An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database given by Doug Judd at OSCON 2008 on 23 July 2008
• System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets given by Jeff Dean at Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2007 on 23 June 2007
• VeriSign’s Global DNS Infrastucture given by Patrick Quaid, Scott Courtney at Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2007 on 23 June 2007
• Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing given by Khalid Ahmed at Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2007 on 23 June 2007
• Lustre File System given by Peter Braam at Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2007 on 23 June 2007
• YouTube Scalability given by Cuong Do at Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2007 on 23 June 2007
• Lessons In Building Scalable Systems given by Reza Behforooz at Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2007 on 23 June 2007
• SCTPs Reliability and Fault Tolerance given by Brad Penoff, Mike Tsai, Alan Wagner at Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2007 on 23 June 2007
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime (at USENIX 2007) given by Brad Fitzpatrick at USENIX 2007 on 21 June 2007
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime (at Linuxfest NW 2007) given by Brad Fitzpatrick at LinuxFest Northwest 2007 on 29 April 2007
• Interconnect Matters for Scalability and Performance given by Einar Rustad at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 26 April 2007
• The 7 Stages of Scaling Web Apps - Strategies for Architects given by John Engates at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 26 April 2007
• Scale-out Options with MySQL and Java given by Mark Matthews at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 25 April 2007
• Scaling the World's Largest Photo Blogging Community given by Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 24 April 2007
• Geographic Distribution for Global Web Application Performance given by Jacob Rosenberg at Web 2.0 Expo 2007 on 17 April 2007
• Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches given by Cal Henderson at Web 2.0 Expo 2007 on 15 April 2007
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime given by Brad Fitzpatrick at YAPC Asia 2007 on 5 April 2007
• Wikipedia - cheap and explosive scaling with LAMP given by Domas Mituzas, Brion Vibber at MySQL Users Conference 2006 on 26 April 2006
• Flickr and PHP given by Cal Henderson at Van PUG on 10 August 2004

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Standards related to Scalability

• RFC 3260 - New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv by D. Grossman (INFORMATIONAL / 1 April 2002)
• RFC 2894 - Router Renumbering for IPv6 by M. Crawford (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 August 2000)
• RFC 2475 - An Architecture for Differentiated Service by S. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, W. Weiss (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 December 1998)