Check out my first novel, midnight's simulacra!
Fast UNIX Servers
From dankwiki
Everyone ought start with Dan Kegel's classic site, "The C10K Problem" (still updated from time to time). Jeff Darcy's "High-Performance Server Architecture" is much of the same. Everything here is advanced followup material to these excellent works, and of course the books of W. Richard Stevens.
- "sendfile(): fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)" on lkml
- "mmap() sendfile()" on freebsd-hackers
- "sharing memory map between processes (same parent)" on comp.unix.programmer
- "some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD" on freebsd-hackers
- Stuart Cheshire's "Laws of Networkdynamics" and "It's the Latency, Stupid"
Queueing Theory
- "Introduction to Queueing"
- Leonard Kleinrock's peerless two-volume Queueing Systems