From: Joseph <jlhurtado@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T13:40:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 20

Charles,

Good to know about eBay, as I said I am guessing, and getting input was
precisely what I wanted... so it seems at least one Java is out there,
are there more?

Thanks Charles!

Jose L. Hurtado
Web Developer
Toronto, Canada


Charles O Nutter wrote:
> On 9/9/06, Joseph <jlhurtado@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > After the long post regarding Joe's now infamous entry about Ruby, I
> > wondered, what have the really successful, scalable, big, websites /
> > web applications out there have used.
>
> It seems like you're just guessing at these. I don't know all of them,
> but I know for certain that eBay is running a crapload of Java in
> their backend. In fact, they used to be a solid ASP site (pre-.NET)
> but switched to Java because the ASP stuff scaled horribly. IBM made a
> big media event out of that a few years back. I mean really, the site
> has Sun/Java branding right at the top...so it's probably safe to
> assume Java's involved.
>
> It's also extremely subjective to "look at what the site uses" because
> I know for a fact many large Java-based sites use URLs showing
> something other than ".jsp", for reasons that are perhaps obvious. And
> there's another large chunk of sites that use PHP or .NET or what have
> you for web-facing stuff while the vast majority of their apps are
> actually backed by large Java clusters behind some variety of service
> layer.
>
> It would probably be better to leave the guesses off the list
> completely and not try to draw any conclusions at all. Unless you
> really know what these sites are using (a difficult prospect at best)
> no conclusions are possible.
>
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