Best Practices for Large-Scale Web Sites: Lessons from eBay
TS-4407

As one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world, eBay faces a unique set of scaling challenges. This session covers the architectural and operational best practices eBay has developed over time to grow and evolve its Java technology-based infrastructure to massive scale while maintaining a 24x7 environment. It covers the forces (or "-ilities") that large-scale systems need to contend with and design for: scalability, availability, manageability, and so on. It outlines a set of best practices that meet--and trade off--those forces in the real world, describes reusable patterns associated with each best practice, and follows with specific examples from the eBay infrastructure that illustrate the patterns in action.

This session is meant for intermediate and advanced developers, technical leads, and system architects.

What you will get from this session:

• A set of proven strategies and techniques for massively scaling a Web site
• Information on forces involved at massive scale and how to make explicit trade-offs among them
• Specific scaling patterns