Hot Scalability Links for May 14, 2010

Lots of good ones this week...

• Scalability, Availability & Stability Patterns. Jonas Boner has 197 slides covering a very wide range of scalability topics. One stop scalability shopping.
• Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources. Heroku's Adam Wiggins shares what they've learned about scaling based on their experiences building a cloud platform and the hundreds of apps running on it. He describes the next generation architecture he thinks all software should follow in the future.
• Scalability of the Hadoop Distributed File System. Konstantin V. Shvachko writes a great post analyzing if the limitations imposed on a distributed file system by the single-node namespace server architecture can support 100,000 clients and petabytes of files.
• Cassandra by Example. Eric Evans created a nice Cassandra tutorial using building a Twitter clone as an example. Many people want to see more data modeling examples. Here you are.