Amazon Architecture

This is a wonderfully informative Amazon update based on Joachim Rohde's discovery of an interview with Amazon's CTO. You'll learn about how Amazon organizes their teams around services, the CAP theorem of building scalable systems, how they deploy software, and a lot more. Many new additions from the ACM Queue article have also been included.

Amazon grew from a tiny online bookstore to one of the largest stores on earth. They did it while pioneering new and interesting ways to rate, review, and recommend products. Greg Linden shared is version of Amazon's birth pangs in a series of blog articles

http://www.highscalability.com/amazon-architecture

others:

• the interview in ACM Queue(Learning from the Amazon technology platform) http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=388
• Amazon uses Perl and Mason: http://www.masonhq.com/?MasonPoweredSites
• Werner Vogels, the CTO of amazon, spoke a tiny bit about technical details on SE-Radio. You can find the podcast under http://www.se-radio.net/index.php?post_id=157593