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In this case -- start by picking something you know to scale well, and find out how it does it.

For instance, if you're familiar with nginx through web development, you'd find this on the nginx web page:

"Architecture and scalability:"

* kqueue (FreeBSD 4.1+), epoll (Linux 2.6+), rt signals (Linux 2.2.19+), /dev/poll (Solaris 7 11/99+), event ports (Solaris 10), select, and poll support;

Once you've narrowed your search, start looking for well-respected books on the subject -- there's a long list of them in the thread below.



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