References
Central reference collection for the blog series “Scalability” and the glossary.
Books
Abbott & Fisher (2015a) Abbott, Martin L. / Fisher, Michael T. (2015): The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise. 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley.
Abbott & Fisher (2015b) Abbott, Martin L. / Fisher, Michael T. (2015): Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Web Sites. 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley.
Anderson (2010) Anderson, David J. (2010): Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business. Blue Hole Press.
Brooks (1975) Brooks, Frederick P. (1975): The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley.
Forsgren et al. (2018) Forsgren, Nicole / Humble, Jez / Kim, Gene (2018): Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps. IT Revolution.
Goldratt (1984) Goldratt, Eliyahu M. / Cox, Jeff (1984): The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. North River Press.
Gunther (1993) Gunther, Neil J. (1993): Practical Performance Analyst. McGraw-Hill.
Gunther (2007) Gunther, Neil J. (2007): Guerrilla Capacity Planning: A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services. Springer.
Hopp & Spearman (2011) Hopp, Wallace J. / Spearman, Mark L. (2011): Factory Physics. 3rd ed. Waveland Press.
Lehman & Belady (1985) Lehman, M.M. / Belady, L.A. (1985): Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change. Academic Press.
McChrystal (2015) McChrystal, Stanley / Collins, Tantum / Silverman, David / Fussell, Chris (2015): Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Portfolio/Penguin.
DeMarco (2001) DeMarco, Tom (2001): Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency. Broadway Books.
Reinertsen (2009) Reinertsen, Donald G. (2009): The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development. Celeritas Publishing.
Skelton & Pais (2019) Skelton, Matthew / Pais, Manuel (2019): Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow. IT Revolution.
Zipf (1949) Zipf, George K. (1949): Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort. Addison-Wesley.
Treiber & Kesting (2013) Treiber, Martin / Kesting, Arne (2013): Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation. Springer.
Papers and Articles
Abadi (2012) Abadi, Daniel (2012): Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design. IEEE Computer, 45(2).
Amdahl (1967) Amdahl, Gene M. (1967): Validity of the single processor approach to achieving large scale computing capabilities. AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference Proceedings, Vol. 30, 483–485.
ACM Digital Library Wikipedia
Breslau et al. (1999) Breslau, Lee et al. (1999): Web Caching and Zipf-like Distributions: Evidence and Implications. IEEE INFOCOM 1999.
Bondi (2000) Bondi, André B. (2000): Characteristics of scalability and their impact on performance. WOSP ‘00: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software and Performance.
Brewer (2000) Brewer, Eric (2000): Towards Robust Distributed Systems. ACM PODC Keynote.
DORA (2024) DORA Team (2024): Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2024. Google Cloud.
Google Cloud Blog DORA Website
Erlang (1917) Erlang, A.K. (1917): Solution of some problems in the theory of probabilities of significance in automatic telephone exchanges. Elektroteknikeren, 13.
Conway (1968) Conway, Melvin (1968): How Do Committees Invent? Datamation, 14(5), 28–31.
Goodhart (1975) / Strathern (1997) Goodhart, Charles (1975): Problems of Monetary Management. Papers in Monetary Economics, Reserve Bank of Australia. Strathern, Marilyn (1997): ‘Improving ratings’: Audit in the British University System. European Review, 5(3).
Gustafson (1988) Gustafson, John L. (1988): Reevaluating Amdahl’s Law. Communications of the ACM, 31(5), 532–533.
ACM Digital Library Wikipedia
Härder & Reuter (1983) Härder, Theo / Reuter, Andreas (1983): Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery. ACM Computing Surveys, 15(4).
Kingman (1961) Kingman, J.F.C. (1961): The single server queue in heavy traffic. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 57(4).
Little (1961) Little, J.D.C. (1961): A Proof for the Queuing Formula: L = λW. Operations Research, 9(3), 383–387.
Scholtes et al. (2016) Scholtes, Ingo et al. (2016): From Aristotle to Ringelmann: A large-scale analysis of team productivity and coordination in Open Source Software projects. Empirical Software Engineering, 21(2).
Vogels (2006) Vogels, Werner (2006): A Conversation with Werner Vogels. ACM Queue, 4(4).
Online Sources
Kelly: Diseconomies of Scale Allan Kelly: Software has Diseconomies of Scale – not Economies of Scale.
Wooldridge: Pool Sizing Wooldridge, Brett: About Pool Sizing. HikariCP Wiki.
Metcalfe (2013) Metcalfe, Bob (2013): Metcalfe’s Law after 40 Years of Ethernet. IEEE Computer, 46(12), 26–31.
IEEE Wikipedia
Ringelmann (1913) Ringelmann, Maximilien (1913): Recherches sur les moteurs animés: Travail de l’homme. Annales de l’Institut National Agronomique, 2e série, tome XII, 1–40.
Wikipedia Rediscovery: Kravitz & Martin (1986), JPSP 50(5), 936–941.
Highway Capacity Manual (2022) Transportation Research Board (2022): Highway Capacity Manual, 7th Edition (HCM 7). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, D.C.
PostgreSQL: Connection Establishment PostgreSQL Documentation: Client Connection Defaults / Connection Establishment.