Interview with Paul Strong, research scientist at eBay Research Labs

[mandy]

Gt: Given its rapid growth in terms of number of users, I assume eBay has quite an extensive Grid infrastructure in place. Would this assumption be correct?

STRONG: Yes, this is the only way that we could cope with such enormous growth, while still delivering the responsiveness and availability that our community expects. To give you some idea of or growth, from a standing start in 1995, we have grown to more than 200 million registered users, approximately 104 million items available at any given point in time and 1.2 billion page views a day at present. During this time, we have evolved from a traditional multi-tiered architecture to a massively distributed architecture/infrastructure everywhere, including everything from development and test environments to production databases (scaling through disaggregation/partitioning) and Web servers (scaling through replication). We have both what one would consider traditional grid infrastructure elements and enterprise grid infrastructure elements. 

full article: http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/875717.html