Web Links

• 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization
  
• Fantastic file uploading for your web application
  
• Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar
  
• Proactively Handling Certificate Expiration With ssl-cert-check
  
• BrowserScope, a community-driven project for profiling web browsers
  
• PCAP Web Performance Analyzer
  

Performance Links

• How to explain growing Worker Threads under Load
  
• Performance Management with Free and Bundled Tools by Adrian Cockcroft, 17 Feb 2011, 101 pages of PPT
  
• Solaris/Linux Performance Measurement and Tuning by Adrian Cockcroft, 17 Feb 2011, 100 pages of PDF
  
• PPT search in cmg.org
  
• PDF search in cmg.org
  

Linux Links

• 6 Stages of Linux Boot Process (Startup Sequence)
  
• Apache Web Server - Complete Guide
  
• Linux Kernel Crash Book
  
• Boot Process Performance Visualization
  
• Linux IPTables: How to Add Firewall Rules (With Allow SSH Example)
  
• Introduction to emerging file systems
  
• Nagios Installation On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
  

Solaris Links

• How to Save the World with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th Anniversary Video Re-Release Edition
  
• Cloud Analytics
  
• 784956 Processes
  
• Log/linear quantizations in DTrace
  
• DTrace pid Provider
  
• DTrace pid Provider Arguments
  
• DTrace pid Provider return
  
• Deploying Oracle Database in Solaris [PDF]
  
• How to Create a Solaris SMF Manifest
  
• Best Practices Guide for Deploying Oracle WebLogic Suite on Sun Systems [PDF]
  
• Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide
  
• ZFS and SSDs FAQs
  
• Comparing Solaris, RHEL and AIX
  

Linux Links

• Manager Disk Quotas
  
• Nagios: How to Enable check_nrpe Command Line Arguments
  
• Scripting the Linux desktop, Part 1: Basics
  
• Running ZFS on Linux
  
• How to Install OCS-Inventory NG Server 2 on CentOS 5.5
  
• 6 rsync Examples to Exclude Multiple Files and Directories using exclude-from
  
• Linux Firewall Tutorial: IPTables Tables, Chains, Rules Fundamentals
  
• IPTables Flush: Delete / Remove All Rules On RedHat and CentOS Linux
  
• Five simple ways to tune your LAMP application
  
• Using dnscap to debug DNS problems on Linux hosts
  
• Install and Configure OpenLDAP on CentOS5
  
• How to Use Sticky Bit on Directory and File
  
• Getting started with SSH, security, and configuration, A hands-on guide
  
• Linux in a Mixed Environment
  

Shell Script Links

• Redirecting Output to Syslog
  
• Bash scripting for beginning system administrators
  
• 6 Expect Script Examples to Expect the Unexpected (With Hello World)
  
• Sed introduction
  
• Basics of Perl Web Portals
  

Performance Links

• How to whip your infrastructure into shape
  
• Preparing the Apache HTTP Server
  
• Topics in High Performance Messagiing
  
• Yahoo! Smush it
  
• Full Stack from Performance Calendar
  
• Progressive Rendering via Multiple Flushes
  
• The State of Web Performance Optmization 2010
  
• Web Page Test
  
• Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?
  
• Navigation Timing
  
• Episodes: a Framework for Measuring Web Page Load Times
  

Scalability Links

• Facebook at 13 Million Queries Per Second Recommends: Minimize Request Variance
  
• Great Introductory Video on Scalability from Harvard Computer Science
  
• Full Stack, Part 1
  
• SQL + NoSQL = Yes
  

Solaris Links

• Ten Ways To Easily Improve Oracle Solaris ZFS Filesystem Performance
  
• New Solaris features: How to monitor SMF services via mail?
  
• Protecting your data with two factors and ZFS dataset encryption
  
• Upgrading ZFS
  
• sudo?
  
• File Based Repo
  
• Solaris 10 9/10 VirtualBox VM
  
• fsstat - File System statistics
  

Performance related links

• Speed Tracer
  
• Holistic Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications [PDF] 13 pages
  
• Thinking Clearly About Performance
  
• System Monitoring on the Cheap with TAP and Smolder
  
• A recipe using an Open Source monitoring tool for performance monitoring of a SaaS application, 8 pages PDF
  
• Performance Visualisation, 135 pages PDF
  

Linux Links

• Linux Tips
  
• Soup To Nuts - Repository of Open Source Articles and Example Code
  
• Firewalling a Linux NFS server with iptables
  
• Explore Linux /proc File System (/proc directories, /proc files)
  

Solaris Links

• Associating a PID with a Service
  
• Lab: the contract subsystem
  
• Getting to know the Solaris Fault
  Management Architecture (FMA)
  
• Oracle Solaris Summit is streaming from LISA!
  
• RAID-Z
  
• DTrace BoF at LISA10
  

Scalability Links

• Fourth Paradigm – Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
  
• An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores
  
• Video: Netflix Scales Out to the AWS Cloud
  
• Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems
  

Linux Links

• Migrate your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, Part 1: Initial migration
  
• Migrate your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, Part 2: Improving application reliability
  
• Migrate your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, Part 3: Building scalability
  
• Migrate your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, part 4: Conquering administrative challenges
  
• How to learn everything you ever wanted to know about Linux sockets
  
• A couple useful tidbits about the Linux /dev/random and /dev/urandom devices
  
• Using Open PGP
  
• Virtual networking in Linux
  

Scalability links

• 6 Ways to Kill Your Servers - Learning How to Scale the Hard Way
  
• Scale-up vs Scale-out
  
• Scalability patterns and an interesting story...
  
• How Can the Large Hadron Collider Withstand One Petabyte of Data a Second?
  
• You are doing it wrong
  
• Coders Must Reprogram How They Write for Wall Street
  

Solaris links

• OTN Solaris-Unix Command Comparison
  
• Solaris Performance Tools CD
  
• Understand the Space Used by ZFS
  
• runacct script - accounting
  
• DTrace materials from Oracle OpenWorld 2010
  

Python links

• PyCon 2010 Tutorial
  
• Videos from Python Ohio
  
• Python Challenge
  
• Python Challenge - Solutions
  
• pdb - Interactive Debugger
  
• re - Regular Expression
  
• MapReduce on Python
  
• Writing Clean, Testable, High Quality Code in Python
  
• Learn Python The Hard Way
  

Linux links

• How to Backup Linux? 15 rsync commands
  
• 3 Steps to Perform SSH Login Without Password Using ssh-keygen & ssh-copy-id
  
• 7 Linux fdisk Command Examples to Manage Hard Disk Partition
  
• Managing multitudes of machines the mild-mannered way
  
• 5 Steps to Install phpMyAdmin on Linux
  

Solaris Links

• DTrce sched provider
  
• What is my Unix doing? Performance - Observability - Debugging - the guy behind http://www.c0t0d0s0.org [PDF 111 pages]
  
• Ganglia on OpenSolaris
  
• Developing Parallel Programs - A Discussion of Popular Models, 34p [PDF]
  
• Oracle Solaris ZFS Tripe Parity
  
• Create a More Efficient Storage Infrastructure with the Oracle® Solaris 10 Operating System<, 15p [PDF]
  
• What's new in Solaris 10 9/10
  

Linux links

• VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in
  
• VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in - Page 2
  
• VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in - Page 3
  
• Packet Analyzer: 15 TCPDUMP Command Examples
  
• Dual Boot openSUSE USB Stick Installer
  
• How to Create and Extract cpio Archives (and tar archives)