(2006-12-14) Ebay Scalability

Joe Gregorio points to slides covering EBay's approach to Scalability. Summary by Johannes Ernst. BigTable reference. Keeping most logic out of the Data Base because that's the hardest part to scale.

Mar'2007 update: Martin Fowler has some notes on their avoidance of transaction processing, including some Dan Pritchett links that might provide more detail.