Although I am embedding this here, reviewing the presentation on SlideShare will include the speaker notes, and will probably yield a better experience. When the video is available, that will be posted here as well.

References

• Google’s BigTable white paper
• Amazon’s Dynamo white paper
• The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources
• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
• Scalable Internet Architectures
• James Golick on adding a new node
• John Allspaw on MTTR > MTBF
• Christopher Brown’s SurgeCon 2010 talk
• High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More
• Peepcode: Caching in Rails
• Ilya Grigorik’s Event Driven Architecture
• Aman Gupta’s Debugging Ruby Webinar