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Killer Apps architecture description

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Some weeks ago a friend of mine showed me a website where the architecture of the most popular websites is explained and described (youtube, amazon,facebook) and it also showed some interesting statistics about them.

Does anyone know where can I find this information?

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Rulas Avatar asked Mar 03 '09 06:03

Rulas


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1 Answers

Was it High Scalability? specifically, the Real Life Architectures section?

-John

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John T Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 05:09

John T