Architecture of massively scalable, distributed systems [EN]

OpenStack is currently the biggest open source project in known universe. Besides social there are other, technical reasons for its rapid adoption. One of them is definately OpenStack architecture - massively scalable, extensible and distributed. Premature optimization is said to be source of all evil, but using some fundamental techniques we can save ourselves many problems in the future. Let’s look at some core scalability concepts and try to apply them to solve daily problems.