Can anyone point me to a good primer on how a large scale commercial website like amazon.com is set up? Most importantly, I'd like to know about how the databases are set up. Do they have a distributed set of databases to balance the load, that all sends updates to one 'master' database, etc.? Doesn't have to be the inside dope(although that's preferable), just a plausible account of how smart people would run an amazon.com.
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This may be useful to you..
http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture
Besides this website contains architectural information about other high volume websites.
Also have a look at this video The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation.
rajesh pillai
2009-03-08 06:13:11
That looks excellent, thanks. -Anon
Anon
2009-03-08 06:15:31
+1 for highscalability.com, I was about to give the same URL, this is a great site
lpfavreau
2009-03-08 06:18:50
Yeah that's the link I was thinking about too. Its very interesting how Amazon threw everything the text books say out the window in order to reach their scalability.
Robert Gould
2009-03-08 06:53:11
yep i was gonna post this
2009-03-08 07:15:45
Dammit now its been /.ed
Tim Matthews
2009-03-08 07:28:43
So much for the high scalability.
Tim Matthews
2009-03-08 07:29:48
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The guys at software engineering radio have done an interview podcast with Werner Vogels, who is the CTO of amazon.com.
Quite interresting and a lot of detail.
pi
2009-03-08 07:25:01