I’ve brought together links to select past postings and posted them to: http://mvdirona.com/jrh/AboutPerspectives/. It’s linked to the blog front page off the “about” link. I’ll add to this list over time. If there is a Perspectives article not included that you think should be, add a comment or send me email.
Talks and Presentations
- Best Practices in Data Center Efficiency
- Grand Challenges in Database Self-Management
- Cloud Computing Economies of Scale
- Service Design Best Practices
- AFCOM Western Washington Chapter Meeting
- Slides from Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
- CACM Interview with Pat Selinger
- Two Presentations at University of Washington
- Hotnets 2008 Paper
- Embarrassingly Distributed Cloud Services
- Internet-Scale Service Efficiency
- USENIX LISA
- High Performance Transaction Systems
- Most of my talks and papers are posted at: http://mvdirona.com/jrh/work
Data Center Architecture and Efficiency
- Next Point of Server Differentiation: Efficiency at Very High Temperature
- Costs of Higher Temperature Data Centers?
- McKinsey Speculates that Cloud Computing May Be More Expensive than Internal IT
- Google Data Center Efficiency Summit (#5, #4, #3, #2, #1)
- 32C (90F) in the Data Center
- Google’s Will Power and Data Center Efficiency
- Annual Fully Burdened Cost of Power
- Cost of Power in Large-Scale Data Centers
- A Small Window into Google’s Data Centers
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller
Service Architectures
- FriendFeed use of MySQL
- FAST 2009 Keynote: AWS S3
- Building Scalable Web Apps with Google App Engine
- Facebook Cassandra Architecture and Design
- Wikipedia Architecture
- MySpace Architecture and .Net
- Mesh Services Architecture and Concepts
- Google Megastore
- Flickr DB Architecture
- Geo-Replication at Facebook
- Scaling at LucasFilms
- Facebook: Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos
- Scaling LinkedIn
- 1,800 MySQL Servers with Two DBAs
- Berkeley Above the Clouds
- Rules of Thumb
- Scaling Web Sites
Storage
- Solid State Disks
- SSD versus Enterprise SATA and SAS disks
- Where SSDs Don’t Make Sense in Server Applications
- Intel’s Solid State Drives
- When SSDs Make Sense in Client Applications
- When SSDs Make Sense in Server Applications
- 1,000,000 IOPS
- Laptop SSD Performance Degradation Problems
- Flash SSD in 38% of Laptops by 2011
- 100,000 IOPS
- Flash Memory SSD Performance
- Hard Disk Drives
- Software & Services
- Under the Covers of Google App Engine Datastore
- Key Value Stores (Project Voldemort, Ringo, Scalaris, Kai, Dynomite, MemcacheDB, ThruDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, HBase and Hypertable)
- The Cost of Bulk Cold Storage
- Measurement and Analysis of Large-Scale Network File System Workloads
- Facebook Releases Cassandra as Open Source
- Petascale SQL DB at Yahoo
- Amazon SimpleDB Announced
Server Hardware
- Low Power Amdahl Blades for Data Intensive Computing
- Microslice Servers
- The Case For Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers
- Why Blade Servers Aren’t the Answer to All Questions
- Client-Side Power Consumption
- Service Free Systems
High-Scale Service Optimizations, Techniques, & Random Observations
- Resource Consumption Shaping
- Should we Shut Off Servers?
- Monitoring at Scale
- Degraded Operations Mode
- Erlang and High-Scale System Software
- Why I love Full Text Search
- Interviewing Program Managers
- The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley
- Jeff Dean on Google Infrastructure (with early Google server pictures)
- Argument for Degraded Operations Mode
- The Next Big Thing
- Server-Side Process Models
- Interviewing with insight at Microsoft
- Professional Engineering
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Good collection. I was seeing for this for long time. Actually, I used a software, called TODOlist, to record the category and good posts as the way you currently done. At first, I felt you missed the post of cost of amazon storage. Finally, I found it here "The Cost of Bulk Cold Storage ".
Thanks for the comment and the correction Anirudh.
James Hamilton
jrh@mvdirona.com
Have been a devoted reader, thanks for this summarization. Super minor quibble, Under Software and Services, "Architecture of a Database System" is misspelled.
Great hearing from you Tom and thanks for the feedback.
–jrh
jrh@mvdirona.com
Thanks for assembling this list James, and for all of the great information you share here. Trusting all is well, and that you are having fun.