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To: Mike Milde who wrote (18590)	8/11/1999 9:16:00 AM
From: Martin Milani	Respond to of 64865

this guys knows nothing about E10k, Ebay, Oracle and their relationships..and the architecture of the site...in a nut shell..STOP waisting you time with him...

To: Mike Milde who wrote (18590)	8/11/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

Okay, here's a rough sketch of my first attempt at the solution ... I've built back-end OLTP systems (not web systems) so take it with a grain of salt. Firstly, I contend a superior solution would be to have several machines from different vendors performing the back-end meta-data, database serving, and web page generation. Therefore if my Sun box goes down my AIX and CPQ boxes will keep me up and running. The site may be slower with a node down, but my site is still up and running. The servers would have an image of the other servers database (trickle day update + synchronize overnight update). EBAY back-end servers could be divided by item category; ie. AIX serving Collectibles, CPQ serving Somethingelse. That is the primary category but they can serve other categories. To gain parallelism just plug in a new server and setup the front-end routing for the categories you want assigned to the new machine. For small/inactive categories they could be served by something as simple as a single processor Linux box. For the back-end I'd use Java servlets. This gives the necessary JDBC access and network API access between my nodes (trickle updates). Also the benefit of servlets is they are loaded once and perform decently for dynamic page generation; based on what I've read. Cheers James