This is way off topic. Do a search on Google (or better yet yahoo) to get the answer.
Much of yahoo is written in LISP (I think). There are some discussions on ./ [slashdot.org] about this. Madhav Reddy wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody explain me yahoo web application in and out, like, database design, >database server details, servlet engine, server details, the amount of data it >handles. How it manages the requests and serves the requests so fast. > > I guess there will be millions of users for yahoo, and each user has a storage of >5MB. Given this much data, how is yahoo managing this much data and serving the >requests so fast? > > regrds > > Reddy > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
