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