Software Architecture Resources

Please find below some articles that really changed my way of thinking about software.

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• The C10K: How to handle 10000 concurrent users by Dan Kegel:
  An interesting pice on scalability of low I/O server applications.
  
  
• Large Corba Systems (or here) by Rocky Stewart:
  Have you ever wondered why so few peole are using Corba for real world purposes?
  
  
• ArsDigita Server Architecture by Philip Greenspun:
  Philip explains why relying on Oracle as an ACID transaction backend isn't that bad. Every distributed systems designer should read this and rethink again if it's such a great idea to keep state in more then one computer.
  
  
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page:
  The architecture of Google...
  
  
• Lisp as a secret weapon by Paul Graham and
  Lisp as an Alternative to Java by Erann Gat:
  Both articles talk about the advantages of using a high-level language such as Lisp in favor to Java or C++ when developing certain types of applications. Sure the question is what type of applications and which what kind of developers, but the Yahoo!-Stores story is definitely impressive.