Peeking behind the technical curtain

Although many of the details are actually buried on the High Scalability blog, which looks like an excellent find. The page about Amazon’s architecture is one of our favourites:”Between 100-150 services are accessed to build a page”. It gives a fascinating glimpse into a company that has really gotten stuck into distributed, de-centralised computing. While everyone else is worrying how to scale their database server, Amazon just re-phrased the question, got a much better solution and zoomed ahead while everyone else was still wondering if they would sell enough books. Brilliant.Who’s that other company pushing highly distributed, de-centralised computing? Oh yes, the worlds largest ad broker.