Reddit reviews Scalable Internet Architectures

Scalable Internet Architectures by Theo Schlossnagle. He was my boss at OmniTI and knows his stuff.

You should start by learning Go, Erlang, Rust and C.

/trolololololololol

Seriously, though, if you're talking about cramming as many users as onto a single machine as possible then node is not your runtime.

Node is great at building things that scale horizontally. It makes it really easy to write realtime, event based code. Node is really good at doing things that involve a lot of network IO since it's easy to do that in a non-blocking way. It's not a great choice for a high scale game server where memory usage is key.

If you want to know more about horizontal scaling patterns (which Eve only qualifies for if you squint a bit), I'd recommend starting here:

http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Theo-Schlossnagle/dp/067232699X

And looking at distributed consensus approaches, message queues, and bumming around http://highscalability.com/ a bit.

The ones I see most often are The Art of Scalability, Building Scalable Websites, and Scalable Internet Architectures, although I can't say anything personally about them. There's a question on SO that would be useful if it wasn't closed. And there's often good stuff on the High Scalability blog.

I'm not aware of any recent books, though, no. I've started a book about that and some other stuff, but along with not being finished it's probably targeting lower traffic than you're looking for.

http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Theo-Schlossnagle/dp/067232699X is good, if a little dated now.

Ok, ok, ok. I used to use it in my past jobs. But, in my past three jobs I haven't used it at all. Unix/Linux is the only way I go now; it's faster for development, it scales faster, open frameworks, and there is no cost or vendor lockin.

> You can't run every application on Linux.

Yes you can; if your application is locked into one system the architect needs to be fired.

> ... in a container and not every application is built to scale horizontally. Pretending otherwise is self-aggrandizing masturbation.

If the application is not built to scale horizontally, it needs to be rebuilt; or the architect needs to be fired. This isn't 2005; you don't just throw more resources at it to "scale". You should be able to spin up a new box in a matter of seconds and then add that box the the cluster. If you can't, you need to read Scalable Internet Architectures and then appologize to your peers and clients for building such a shitty environment.

> To be honest, I'm really reminded of the "rock star" devs pimping ruby. Yeah, you're doing cool shit. Yeah green field implementations are fucking grand. But you don't have to act like a pompous ass about it. You're already doing cool shit and you should be happy, why are you being such a fucking try-hard?

So having an opinion on poor microsoft tech means I'm not doing cool shit or trying too hard?

Oh, and no troll.