ebay - High Scalability

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10 eBay Secrets for Planet Wide Scaling

You don't even have to make a bid, Randy Shoup, an eBay Distinguished Architect, gives this presentation on how eBay scales, for free. Randy has done a fabulous job in this presentation and in other talks listed at the end of this post getting at the heart of

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Ebay history and architecture

Ebay[1] Starts in 1995, initial name AuctionWeb (V1) : - very simple architecture - based on perl - no database, for data persistence they used plain files Because of rapid growth they needed to improve their architecture and so V2 (clever name) was born: - replaced perl with C/C+