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by londons_explore 2757 days ago
Thanks for sharing that! It might be from 2011, but it is still very informative.

I am surprised EbayISAPI.dll was C++ - I always assumed it was a mess of .NET. It makes sense considering how old Ebay is though.

I see over and over again the 'no database would scale big enough, so we had to build our own'. If only opensource databases got spanner-style auto-sharding and auto-loadbalancing sooner, millions of engineer-hours could have been better spent!