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]>
