Great Talk from EBay
Firstly, I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog as of late because we, Cognifide, have been really busy over the last few weeks. We moved offices a couple of weeks back, and apart from a little blip re. our new IPs not being propagated beyond Polish borders, we were on offline as far as the rest of the world was concerned for only a couple of days. Not a bad result really.
Cognifide builds web-sites. We have delivered quiet of few of these and as our customers’ demands for bigger and better sites becomes louder and more frequent, we have faced numerous internal challenges to meet them. Putting to one side the usual problems around creative, css, html production, I have become obsessed with some of the problems that companies such as Amazon and eBay face. Reading around the subject, many of these engineers have arrived at the same solutions but by taking different approaches. In a talk by eBay’s Dan Pritchett, in was humbling to hear that architectural decisions that fall below the 4 million requests per day radar, should be handled by developers and should not be escalated to architects. This gives eBay’s approach to scalability a certain level of respect.