Comments on: What the Web’s most popular sites are running on http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/ Ramblings and tech news from the Pingdom team Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: tecosystems » When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll Your Own http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-400894 tecosystems » When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll Your Own Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:08:47 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-400894 [...] Until the last few years, when more accessible languages, cheaper hardware, and a growing catalog of open source software assets led firms small and large to question the status quo. To decide, on a volume basis, that the available frameworks, development tools, databases, operating systems, and so on weren’t quite right for their needs, and that rolling their own was preferable. And that, once built, they could amortize the costs of developing these assets if they made them publicly available. Which has led to Rackspace contributing to Facebook’s Cassandra, Facebook contributing to Yahoo’s Hadoop, and IBM contributing to all of the above. The days of rolling your own are back for some portion of the would-be enterprise software customers, if not for the same reasons as in the past. Many enterprises will lack the necessary skills to build their own Hadoop, obviously, but thanks to that project’s developers they don’t have to. Some will argue that the likes of Facebook and Google can’t be counted as potential enterprise software customers, because they were never likely to buy from traditional providers in the first place. I would respond that this is precisely the point. Having participated in the infrastructure build out of a lot of startups as a systems integrator from 2000-2003 or so, I can tell you that those I worked with overwhelmingly preferred the standard at-the-time enterprise infrastructure of BEA, Oracle, and Solaris. These days? Well, let’s just say that startups are making different choices. [...] [...] Until the last few years, when more accessible languages, cheaper hardware, and a growing catalog of open source software assets led firms small and large to question the status quo. To decide, on a volume basis, that the available frameworks, development tools, databases, operating systems, and so on weren’t quite right for their needs, and that rolling their own was preferable. And that, once built, they could amortize the costs of developing these assets if they made them publicly available. Which has led to Rackspace contributing to Facebook’s Cassandra, Facebook contributing to Yahoo’s Hadoop, and IBM contributing to all of the above. The days of rolling your own are back for some portion of the would-be enterprise software customers, if not for the same reasons as in the past. Many enterprises will lack the necessary skills to build their own Hadoop, obviously, but thanks to that project’s developers they don’t have to. Some will argue that the likes of Facebook and Google can’t be counted as potential enterprise software customers, because they were never likely to buy from traditional providers in the first place. I would respond that this is precisely the point. Having participated in the infrastructure build out of a lot of startups as a systems integrator from 2000-2003 or so, I can tell you that those I worked with overwhelmingly preferred the standard at-the-time enterprise infrastructure of BEA, Oracle, and Solaris. These days? Well, let’s just say that startups are making different choices. [...]

]]> By: کارآفرین و خردورزی | Business Of Software | کسب‌وکار نرم‌افزار http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-313017 کارآفرین و خردورزی | Business Of Software | کسب‌وکار نرم‌افزار Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:15:10 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-313017 [...] ترین سایت های دنیا چه فناوری هایی را بکار می گیرند از اینجا بگیرید. در واقع اگر به سایت High Scalability که در آن، بزرگترین [...] [...] ترین سایت های دنیا چه فناوری هایی را بکار می گیرند از اینجا بگیرید. در واقع اگر به سایت High Scalability که در آن، بزرگترین [...]

]]> By: Linux platform of choice: most popular websites got the facts | Commercial Open Source Software http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-147336 Linux platform of choice: most popular websites got the facts | Commercial Open Source Software Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:56:49 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-147336 [...] article “What the Web’s most popular sites are running on” explores the underlying hardware and software that keep these famous websites working under heavy [...] [...] article “What the Web’s most popular sites are running on” explores the underlying hardware and software that keep these famous websites working under heavy [...]

]]> By: LIS4930 (6) Web Dev with PHP » Lecture Notes: Jan 7 http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-55311 LIS4930 (6) Web Dev with PHP » Lecture Notes: Jan 7 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:49:44 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-55311 [...] What the Web’s Most Popular Sites are Running On - A great review of what technologies are popular on the web. [...] [...] What the Web’s Most Popular Sites are Running On – A great review of what technologies are popular on the web. [...]

]]> By: Web 2.0 firmy pěstují pod lampami http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-36493 Web 2.0 firmy pěstují pod lampami Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:15:07 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-36493 [...] Firma Pingdom, která se zabývá monitoringem dostupnosti serverů nedávno publikovala výsledky zajímavého průzkumu, a to sice: “Na čem běží nejpopulárnější weby“. Jaký web server, databázi a programovací jazyky používají masivně navštěvované weby? Kolik mají web serverů? Clusterují? Maníci z Pingdomu tyto informace získali od sedmi populárních Web 2.0 projektů, konkrétně TechCrunch, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto, YouSendIt, Meebo, Vimeo a Alexaholic. [...] [...] Firma Pingdom, která se zabývá monitoringem dostupnosti serverů nedávno publikovala výsledky zajímavého průzkumu, a to sice: “Na čem běží nejpopulárnější weby“. Jaký web server, databázi a programovací jazyky používají masivně navštěvované weby? Kolik mají web serverů? Clusterují? Maníci z Pingdomu tyto informace získali od sedmi populárních Web 2.0 projektů, konkrétně TechCrunch, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto, YouSendIt, Meebo, Vimeo a Alexaholic. [...]

]]> By: Why most large-scale web sites not written in Java | 出家如初，成佛有余 http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-34123 Why most large-scale web sites not written in Java | 出家如初，成佛有余 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:51:31 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-34123 [...] http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95 [...] [...] http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95 [...]

]]> By: Architect’s Linkblog » Blog Archive » ? Links for … http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-30335 Architect’s Linkblog » Blog Archive » ? Links for … Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:21:17 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-30335 [...] One size fits all: A concept whose time has come and gone - A relational DB pioneer promotes rotating data storage (records vertically, fields horizontally) so calculations on the same field over many records is faster over collocated data.10 Fantastic Free Open Source Downloads For The Enterprise“Code First” Web Services ReconsideredScaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster - Twitter is one of the largest scale Ruby web applications, so their architecture and performance tweaks is especially interesting to those using or considering Ruby.What the Web’s most popular sites are running on - The software and hardware used to run seven popular websites.Development with Complex Architectures - Using virtualization to help developers debug large systems. [...] [...] One size fits all: A concept whose time has come and gone – A relational DB pioneer promotes rotating data storage (records vertically, fields horizontally) so calculations on the same field over many records is faster over collocated data.10 Fantastic Free Open Source Downloads For The Enterprise“Code First” Web Services ReconsideredScaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster – Twitter is one of the largest scale Ruby web applications, so their architecture and performance tweaks is especially interesting to those using or considering Ruby.What the Web’s most popular sites are running on – The software and hardware used to run seven popular websites.Development with Complex Architectures – Using virtualization to help developers debug large systems. [...]

]]> By: Lucid Points » Blog Archive » Chip, Chip, Chip Away at Microsoft http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-27006 Lucid Points » Blog Archive » Chip, Chip, Chip Away at Microsoft Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:00:45 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-27006 [...] Worlds Most Popular Sites Run Linux [...] [...] Worlds Most Popular Sites Run Linux [...]

]]> By: Bryghtpath LLC » Blog Archive » Infrastructure - Be professional or go home http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-24394 Bryghtpath LLC » Blog Archive » Infrastructure - Be professional or go home Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:39:26 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-24394 [...] Infrastructure - Be professional or go home Earlier this week, Jeremy Wright asked about the backend infrastructure of the various blog networks. This was in response to a fascinating survey published over at Pingdom showing the OS, infrastructure, and other information about 7 large sites, including TechCrunch and others. [...] [...] Infrastructure – Be professional or go home Earlier this week, Jeremy Wright asked about the backend infrastructure of the various blog networks. This was in response to a fascinating survey published over at Pingdom showing the OS, infrastructure, and other information about 7 large sites, including TechCrunch and others. [...]

]]> By: Goldblog http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/02/26/what-the-webs-most-popular-sites-are-running-on/comment-page-1/#comment-24026 Goldblog Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:46:36 +0000 http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95#comment-24026 <strong>Scalability - TechCrunch Runs On 1 Web Server And 1 Database server. Huh?...</strong> ... Scalability – TechCrunch Runs On 1 Web Server And 1 Database server. Huh?…

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