[OT] Re: Performance of Web Application

[Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>]

This is way off topic. Do a search on Google (or better yet yahoo) to 
get the answer.

Much of yahoo is written in LISP  (I think). There are some discussions 
on ./ [slashdot.org] about this.


Madhav Reddy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anybody explain me yahoo web application in and out, like, database design, database server details, servlet engine, server details, the amount of data it handles. How it manages the requests and serves the requests so fast. 
> 
> I guess there will be millions of users for yahoo, and each user has a storage of 5MB. Given this much data, how is yahoo managing this much data and serving the requests so fast?
> 
> regrds
> 
> Reddy
> 


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