The eBay architecture

Ugo points to the slides of a recent SAMSIG presentation on eBay’s architecture. A fascinating read…and it’s comforting to learn that they threw away most of J2EE: eBay scales on servlets and a rewritten connection pool.

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2 Responses to The eBay architecture

leo says:

December 22, 2006 at 6:11 pm

Real intresting. But when you use no J2EE, why do you use Java at all (and not a scripting language)?
Bertrand Delacretaz says:

December 22, 2006 at 6:51 pm

Well, many reasons can apply…like having a top-notch team of Java programmers, and using efficient tools like Spring and other mean non-J2EE tools.

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