O'Reilly has published a nice story about a team looking for the optimal architecture for their high-performance server software. If you're dealing with software that needs to serve a huge number of concurrent users, you might want to check it out. Then again, if you're writing that kind of software yourself, you also might want to check out whether someone else has done it for you already...

Johanna Rothman and Laurent Bossavit both have blogged some words on testing that you might want your whole team read and think over.

...is "peacemaker" according to BBC. I have my doubts about the result, however. You see, if a real person would've analyzed my responses, I think the diagnosis would've been a nicely put synonym for "split personality" :)