An Inside Look At eBay's Technology 84
endychavez writes with a CIO Insight profile giving a look inside eBay and its technology platform. The company has 40,000 outside developers working to increase its value and efficiency. From the article: "'They are way ahead of other companies' in terms of supporting developers, says one application builder... 'This a new wave of business,' says [another developer's marketing director]. 'eBay is a supplier, a marketing channel and a competitor. It's a weird arrangement.' ... 'If you can't split it, you can't scale it,' says Eric Billingsley, head of eBay Research Labs. 'We've made ourselves masters of virtualization.' ... eBay is able to publish a new version of its site every two weeks, adding 100,000 lines of code, all while in use."
Re:40,000 developers with 100,000 lines of new cod (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:Do you even know what a "natural monopoly" is? (Score:2, Interesting)
This does not apply to EBay. There are tons and tons and tons of auction sites on line, there are various stores and trading places and billboards. EBay is only important due to its popularity, but it is most certainly not the only auction that will survive in the long run and new ones will be created.