Big name web sites and the platforms they run on (was: Skype and Asterisk)
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Sun Sep 28 22:25:37 EDT 2008
On Sep 28, 2008, at 13:32, Ben Scott wrote:
> My information is a few years out of date, but circa 2000, eBay's
> front-end web servers was a Windows cluster, running IIS.
It looks like it still is... at least Netcraft says so. hrm, I
could have sworn they presented their infrastructure at LinuxWorld
Expo a few years ago...
> Twitter runs on Ruby/Rails, MySQL, and Linux, and has had a rather
> poor time scaling to handle growth, so I'm not sure we should be proud
> of that.
Yeah, well, there's only so much you can do without a scalable
architecture. It's funny, my Firefox URL cache has learned 'Twitter
- Over Capacity' as the permanent title for 'twitter.com'.
-Bill
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