from some time i track articles on high scalability. a lot of cool stuff's there. interesting arts, good insight on what's going on at scale. recently i came across Facebook Secrets of Web Performance. i'm no fan of facebook as a service (well – any social network(s), in fact), but they do a lot of really interesting research. quoting 2 points, outlined by the just-mentioned article:
these i find obvious for years now. yet nearly none company i had worked for really put these live. artificially decreasing productivity is NOT fun… “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” (W. Edwards Deming) – yet again! :)