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]>
