A 10,000 node linux cluster. http://www.google.com/press/highlights.html
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alef Arendsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:58 AM > To: Jakarta General List > Subject: RE: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful > > > As far as I can remember Google has started out in a small > shed using just personal computers. No big mainframes, > serverfarms or whatever. Just a proprietary server platform. > > What the status is right now, I don't now... > > alef > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, 01 February 2002 16:46 > > To: Jakarta General List > > Subject: Re: [OT] RE: J2EE considered harmful > > > > > > yahoo.com goes way beyond a search engine: > > > > Email, address books, auctions, classified ads, file storage, > > calendars > > and shared calendars, personalized portals for like 27 different sub > > applications, the list goes on. > > > > Yahoo is delivering a vast number of dynamic applications to an > > incredible number of users, with excellent performance and > > reliabity. If > > there a success story in IT, this is it. > > > > I picked yahoo.com and google.com as two different examples of high > > traffic Web sites that are delivering scalability. > > > > I only mentioned google.com since it is ~blazingly fast~, and > > represents > > a very different best-of-breed right now. > > > > > > "Andrew C. Oliver" wrote: > > > > > > Those are both search engines with non-critical data update > > issues. You > > > do need an example with more business-logic oriented type > > > functionality. I could mock something like those up with > > Lucene just > > > with a few routers and pushing the indicies to the > mirrored systems. > > > This doesn't answer the "enterprise system" question. > > Secondly we need > > > examples on a more moderate basis. > > > > > > (sorry, if that sounds critical, I don't mean to be, I > think you're > > > heading the discussion the right direction, I just don't > think those > > > examples do that) > > > > > > On a more personal note. Funny story: My wife went to > > high/grade school > > > with the Google guy. Small world eh? > > > > > > -Andy > > > > > > On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 08:57, Ted Husted wrote: > > > > Perhaps the question to ask is how are real sites providing real > > > > scalabilty without resorting to Enterprise JavaBeans? > > > > > > > > Take google.com and yahoo.com for example, > > > > > > > > Yahoo offers a signficant number of remote, multi-user > > applications like > > > > the ones we would like to provide to our own clients. Are > > they using > > > > EJBs? If not, what do they use? How can we turn Yahoo's > > approach into a > > > > toolkit model that other developers can use? > > > > > > > > Google is offering a single, read-only servvice, but at > > mind-bending > > > > speed. How does it serve so many users so quickly? Again, > > how can we > > > > package that approach in a way that it accessible to > > other developers? > > > > > > > > Sorry to be providing more queries than code, but to > > paraphrase Linus, > > > > it often takes one person to articulate an issue, and > > another to resolve > > > > it =:o) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. > > > > -- Java Web Development with Struts. > > > > -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. > > > > -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > > www.superlinksoftware.com > > www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java > > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html > > - fix java generics! > > > > The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to > > vote. > > -Ambassador Kosh > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. > -- Java Web Development with Struts. > -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. > -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>This electronic mail transmission may contain confidential information and is intended only for the person(s) named. Any use, copying or disclosure by any other person is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender via e-mail. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
