pong, space invaders and pole position played with real people.
(outdated).
Dan Kegel's updated paper on high-performance network io programming on Unix.
Felix von Leitner's original paper on BSD and Linux io performance.
"I was reading David Cramer's tip to use JSONField in Django to be able to store arbitrary fields in a SQL database. Nice. But is it fast enough? Well, I can't answer that but I did look into the difference in read/write performance between simplejson, cPickle and marshal."
