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EBay Architecture †Balancing site stability, feature velocity, cost, and performance
Tue, Oct 02, 2007 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
eBay Inc. has interesting challenges around scaling, choice of technologies, and implementation specifics. eBay's search engine is one of the largest and most complex information retrieval machines in the world. eBay operates tens of thousands of servers in locations all over the globe and coordinates their activities from a single location by employing a grid-style architecture. eBay has a variety of research initiatives in Web 2.0, statistical modeling, machine learning, etc., in addition to traditional software development tracts which are Java/C++ based. This talk will give an overview of some of the inner workings of the eBay stack, and of the eBay work environment.Speaker: Mahesh Tyagarajan is a Sr. Manager, Application Architecture, at eBay Inc. Mahesh is an Enterprise Architect with significant industry experience in various technology companies including eBay, Bell Labs (Lucent), and Netscape.Hosted by Prof. Viktor Prasanna
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
