There’s an article on eWeek.com about the storage requirements of eBay.com. It’s mostly large number willy waving, but this quote from the third page caught my eye:
eBay’s application servers, according to Strong:
* use monolithic two-tier architecture
* boast 3.3 million line C++ ISAPI DLL (150MB binary)
* have hundreds of developers, all working on the same code
* are hitting compiler limits on number of methods per class.
Now, I could be wrong, but the last three points don’t really strike me as much to be proud of, not to mention possibly inaccurate in the case of the first two.
In other news, this morning I did something that some people might find a little odd. I cleaned my bike.
Truly, I am entering into the realm of the unwell.
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