Every company wants to cut cost and expand business. For websites, it means reducing server and storage expenses while having more page views and transactions. It's difficult, especially for some one like eBay who already has 2B page view/day and $60B transactions/year.
From the slides, we can learn some secrets of eBay (not very surprising though). The five principles cover partition, async, automation, failure and inconsistency, all of which are classic CS research topics. So I guess the real challenges are implementation and practical trade-offs.
I don't quite understand why a 3rd-party cloud provider will help cutting cost. It looks like we already have too much over-provision in enterprise networks, so cloud providers can sell storage and cycles very cheap compared with self-managed DCs. But how to guarantee data security? There is high risk and resulting shadow cost for cloud.
I'd like to learn more about cost comparison between owned DC maintenance and cloud price.
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Interesting and informative information. Good to know.
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