[hellopat]

While these aren't so much architectures as they are a list of tools, it's fascinating to see which ones successful companies are using.

I like that Trello has such a short list and still runs incredibly fast with a high number of users.

[twic]

You say that like picking a small number of decent building blocks and then putting your energy into building high-quality code rather than wrangling a circus of services is a bad way to build scalable systems.