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Post #237,958 by tuberculosis 12/13/05 8:19:31 PM Reply	Hmm, I thought it was .asp Did they port it? "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #237,968 by ben_tilly 12/13/05 10:31:39 PM Reply	They did, but not the port you are thinking of The first prototype was in Perl. They rewrote that in C++ a long time ago. Then after the site outages a few years ago they rewrote for scalability, and part of that rewrite was porting it to Java. (My personal opinion is that changes in the database architecture deserve more credit for the improvements in scaleability than the switch in languages.) It currently is written in Java and runs on Windows. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #237,975 by tuberculosis 12/14/05 12:04:55 AM Reply	Long road Interesting. I don't often hear "runs on windows" and "rewrote for scalability" in the same breath. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #237,978 by folkert 12/14/05 1:28:03 AM Reply	They throw Hardware at it. Scalability means being able to spread the work out. Seems to me I recall they announced a "deal" with Microsoft and SUN. 2 processor 4GB of memory machines in blade form, can be as great as 144 Servers per 42U cabinet. Add a cabinet of Windows servers... you get redundancy AND better performance. But at a cost that really sucks. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.
Post #237,980 by ben_tilly 12/14/05 1:35:20 AM Reply	Sun would be for the databases I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #237,979 by ben_tilly 12/14/05 1:34:11 AM Reply	I agree with all of that but... given that they are in the top 10 sites by traffic volume, their claim to scaleability is pretty good. Now I personally believe that with a different platform they would be able to achieve significant savings, but their profit margins are good enough that it isn't an issue. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

Java begins its decline - (tuberculosis) - (15) - Dec. 13, 2005, 07:35:11 PM EST

Correction. eBay uses Java. -NT - (ben_tilly) - (6) - Dec. 13, 2005, 07:44:57 PM EST

Hmm, I thought it was .asp - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Dec. 13, 2005, 08:19:31 PM EST

They did, but not the port you are thinking of - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Dec. 13, 2005, 10:31:39 PM EST

Long road - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Dec. 14, 2005, 12:04:55 AM EST

They throw Hardware at it. - (folkert) - (1) - Dec. 14, 2005, 01:28:03 AM EST

Sun would be for the databases -NT - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 14, 2005, 01:35:20 AM EST

I agree with all of that but... - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 14, 2005, 01:34:11 AM EST

So what do you think back-ends will be written in? -NT - (warmachine) - (7) - Dec. 14, 2005, 05:09:44 AM EST

SmallTALK. Duh. -NT - (pwhysall) - Dec. 14, 2005, 06:34:19 AM EST

Trend puts the lie - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 14, 2005, 11:13:55 AM EST

Trend puts the lie - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Dec. 14, 2005, 11:14:34 AM EST

Hey, we heard you the first time! -NT - (jb4) - (3) - Dec. 14, 2005, 11:43:46 AM EST

QWEST DSL - where you're never sure if you've sent - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Dec. 14, 2005, 12:59:17 PM EST

I open another browser tab to check on such occasions... -NT - (Another Scott) - Dec. 14, 2005, 01:08:17 PM EST

Yeah, I need to fix that. -NT - (admin) - Dec. 14, 2005, 01:14:57 PM EST

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