Highly Scalable Architectures (Best/Well Known Systems)

Highly Scalable Architecture(s) at a glance

1. Facebook: An Example Canonical Architecture For Scaling Billions Of Messages as in 2011
2. Youtube Architecture as in 2012
3. The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars as in 2013
4. Amazon Architecture as in 2007
5. Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster as in 2009, another on twitter: The Architecture Twitter Uses To Deal With 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, A 22 MB/S Firehose, And Send Tweets In Under 5 Seconds as in 2013
6. The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars as in 2012
7. Google Architecture as in 2008
8. Google Talk Architecture as in 2007
9. Pinterest Architecture Update – 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB Of Data as in 2012
10. TripAdvisor Architecture – 40M Visitors, 200M Dynamic Page Views, 30TB Data as in 2011
11. Stackoverflow Architecture as in 2009
12. Linkedin Architecture as in 2008

Source: http://www.alltechnews.in/2013/07/highly-scalable-architectures-at-glance.html