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How eBay Works: An Amazing PDF

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I’ve found this amazing PDF presentation that shows how eBay’s architecture fits together and gives some mindblowing traffic numbers (1 billion pageviews per day!). There’s lots of juicy information about how their database system works too. They perform no client-side transactions, intriguingly.

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2 Responses to “How eBay Works: An Amazing PDF”

  1. Jason Lambert Says:
    December 8th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    Links of interest: 08-Dec-2006

    The Evil Genius - talks about how Nick Denton at ValleyWag has increased traffic from 500,000 pageviews in October to 1.2million page views (forcast) for December. Not bad. I’ve turned into a daily valleywag reader, it’s one of the few blo…

  2. links for 2006-12-12 » Tank’s Thoughts Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 6:09 am

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