Whole trees are a self replicating carbon nano-fiber comprised primarily of air water and sunlight.

beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service

Applications that process large volumes of data (such as, search engines, grid computing applications, data mining applications, etc.) require a backend infrastructure for storing data.

It's pretty easy to say what kinds of problems are not interesting: those where instead of solving a few big, clear, problems, you have to solve a lot of nasty little ones. The distinguishing feature of nasty little problems is that you don't learn anythi

A bunch of docs and links on building highly scalable servers

Good technical details here, must better than the "enthusiast" sites