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by icebraining 3883 days ago
Apparently, they have a pretty large stream of real-time price updates, powered by F# on Azure. Hanselminutes had an episode with (one of?) their senior software engineers recently[1]. According to the podcast, they're calculating prices based on a lot of factors, then sending them so fast to Google (Shopping, I suppose?) that Google's API was the bottleneck.

[1] http://hanselminutes.com/494/jetcom-scales-with-azure-f-and-...