Re: How Google/Amazon/eBay use?

From: Gregory Toomey (nospam_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 10/04/04


Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:13:15 +1000

http://www-free.info wrote:

> As far as I know
> Amazon uses Perl
> eBay uses C
> Google, was not using PHP at
> all before late 2003. I bet it is using C.
>
> I am pretty sure that Google does not use database. Not sure about Amazon
> or eBay

Just to make this thread not totally useless, the following paper summarises
the "google file system" architechture:
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf

(Until receently, ebay used IIS, one of the few major sites to dp sp).

gtoomey



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