Namaste Everyone, As we all know about Flipkart's BigBillionDay sale and its consequences. Last night, I was checking this link <http://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/information-technology-case-study/the-tech-story-behind-flipkarts-big-billion-sale/44797175> and came to know that Flipkart deployed 4500 servers for the D-Day.
Now, can you guys explain me how was that possible? Does it mean that they put their web code on 4500 servers? Is it really possible? If yes then how or was there only single web code which was handling all requests? But, I really appreciate Flipkart for taking up the initiative to handle or organize such event. It was difficult for a Indian company to handle a large pool of requests. Flipkart started a new chapter on web scalability. #LessonLearnt (in technical way) What are the factors which one should concern or pay attention while focusing on such event regarding scalability or technical glitches? How can we bring consistency to our web application like Google, FB, Twitter does (they are handling zillion requests per second)? I am not a web guy so curious to know about these questions. I was in dilemma that how can I search this question on Google unless I would have done that part before disturbing you all. BTW, there was a question on Quora <https://www.quora.com/What-is-Flipkarts-Big-Billion-Day-Sales-Are-they-cheating-people-in-the-name-of-Big-Billion-Day-sales> but they were discussing something else regarding the BigBillionDay sale. #I didn't read all the quora answers. May be I am asking this question out of lack of experience or ignorance because I have not worked for any organization so far or not up to such a large level where I got a chance to work on such a big project. Please ignore my innocence for asking this question even if it sounds silly. I hope WEB guys can guide me as well as others on this issue much better. Look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks. -- *Regards,Sahil ModGill* _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
