Performance and Capacity Case Studies

Now that you are getting going on understanding some of the architectures of SharePoint 2010 I just stumbled across these case studies that have been published by Microsoft. They are simple but great re-enforcement of what you have been reading in my series.
Performance and capacity technical case studies (SharePoint Server 2010)
There are case studies on:

• Publishing
• Intranet
• Department Collaboration
• Social

For each they go over:

• Required hardware
• Topology
• Configuration
• Workload
• Data
• Performance Monitoring

Along this same lines I would also read two whitepapers from here. Specifically read the following:

• Capacity Planning and Sizing for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Based Divisional Portal (Divisional PortalCapacityPlanningDoc.docx )
• SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management for Web Content Management Deployments (WCMCapacityPlanningDoc.docx)