Where to look for information on Architecture of High Scalable Website like Orbitz, Amazon, Ebay, Linkedin etc?

InfoQ often has some good presentations on highly scalable architectures.

InfoQ often has some good presentations on highly scalable architectures: Orbitz Amazon Ebay.

Too late to come up with a real list, but... Some interesting posts from facebook can be found here.

See also several of the following titles: Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications gh Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers gh Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More Scalable Internet Architectures.

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