Peter Booth
9/11/2006 2:43:00 AM
The story I heard second hand was "in-house developed C application server
backed by sh1tloads of Java"
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph [mailto:jlhurtado@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 3:05 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 20
I missed Amazon on the list I just sent, it should read J2EE there too as
was mentioned:
"Amazon, for example, uses a lot of J2EE. " Tim Smith.
Regards,
Jose Hurtado
Joseph wrote:
> Friends,
>
> As Tim Bray suggested I've made my best to drop the guesses on the
> list, and show only information I know is either true or reported by
> some credible source. When no information is there, I just left a
> question mark.
>
> I have also updated the list with the information Chad Perrin, Charles
> Nutter and Tim Bray added to it. This is the list so far, again open
> for improvement:
>
> 1 Yahoo FreeBSD
> PERL, PHP, Proprietary
> "Also Python and Common Lisp" Chad Perrin
>
>
> 2 MSN Windows Server 2000/2003, Some FreeBSD
> ASP, ASP.NET
> "I believe they're still using some FreeBSD systems at Hotmail, and
> all of Windows is behind free unix firewalls through a proxy service."
> Chad Perrin
>
> 3 Google. Linux based or unknown servers
> Python, C, Proprietary, Java
>
> 4 Baidu.com Linux based unknown.
> ?
>
> 5. Qq.com Linux based unknown and Windows 2003.
> ?
>
> 6. MySpace Windows 2003 / 2000 some Linux unknowns too.
> Coldfusion
> "Migrating to BlueDragon.NET, which uses .NET as the back end for
> ColdFusion... currently... on a ColdFusion 5 back-end" Chad Perrin
>
> 7. sina.com.cn FreeBSD, Solaris 8, Linux based unknowns,
> ?
>
> 8. Yahoo Japan Like Yahoo at 1.
>
> 9. 163.com China FreeBSD and some Linux based unknowns,
> ?
>
> 10 Live.com Windows 2003, Linux unknown servers
> ASP.NET
>
> 11 eBay.com Windows 2000/2003
> PERL, Proprietary, Java J2EEE
>
> "eBay is running a crapload of Java... they used to be a solid ASP
> site
> (pre-.NET) but switched to Java because the ASP stuff scaled
> horribly...the site has Sun/Java branding...it's probably safe to
> assume Java's involved. " Charles Nutter
>
> 12. Sohu.com China Linux unknown servers
> ?
>
> 13. YouTube.com Linux unknown servers
> ?
>
> 14. Yahoo China Like 1
>
> 15. Microsoft Windows 2003 / 2000, some FreeBSD at Hotmail, and UNIX
> based firewalls.
> ASP.net, ASP
>
> 16. Wikipedia Apache, very little FreeBSD
> Mostly PHP, some minor PERL, Python and some Java for the
> English search.
>
> "a grand total of one FreeBSD server... The servers are primarily
> running on Fedora Core 3-5...The MediaWiki software is all PHP. MySQL
> ...it's classic LAMP platform." Chad Perrin
>
> "but Wikimedia do use Lucene [Apache Java based text search engine]
> for at least the english search" A. S. Bradbury
>
> 17. Amazon.com FreeBSD, Linux unknown servers, Solaris 8, Netware
> PERL, Proprietary, more?
>
> 18. Orkut.com Linux unknown server
> "ASP.NET" Tim Bray
>
>
> 19. Blogger FreeBSD, Linux unknown servers
> ?
>
> 20. Google UK Like Google
>
>
> Bye again,
>
> Jose Hurtado
> Web Developer
> Toronto, Canada
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