Huge web sites such as facebook, and wikipedia, are they entirely programmed in php? Or do they use some other technology behind the scenes
If you know about other huge sites, could you please add site name, url, and technology used?
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HighScalability.com is web site that have lots of stories about technologies behind biggest web sites:
zendar
2009-02-25 18:51:38
Great site, thanks!
Dave Swersky
2009-02-25 18:59:07
Good information there! Thank you!
Mg
2009-02-25 19:01:15
Cool. Site is build in Drupal...
Luke
2009-02-25 23:07:54
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There's generally tons of extra technology behind the scenes. Facebook has been pretty good about posting information about some of the things they use, there is lots of interesting information here: Engineering @ Facebook's Notes. Almost all of the posts there are good reading.
Chad Birch
2009-02-25 18:58:09
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A lot of them use...
Memcached - http://www.danga.com/memcached/
l_39217_l
2009-02-25 18:58:56
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Digg.com is PHP, but they used Python to do most of the "recommendation engine".
scunliffe
2009-02-25 20:48:20
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These big sites all use a mixture of languages. Different languages are better suited to certain tasks. I know from experience as I too am designing a web app just as large (in terms of no of classes, lines of code, etc) as Facebook, Amazon, etc. I'm using Python for prediction engines and recommendation systems, C++ for 3d, etc...
dotnetdev
2009-02-25 22:54:54