http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html

very nice, will need to test it

http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn

http://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast

http://code.google.com/p/redis/

http://www.drdobbs.com/java/227900404;jsessionid=2DTBS0EF33SM3QE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/fabric/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavemaker

http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/

http://www.infoq.com/articles/no-reliable-messaging

http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html

http://www.rabbitmq.com/faq.html#performance-persistent

http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2010/09/tron.html