Which technology is responsible for this?

[qwert85103]

Hello,

As an example, ebay.com, so many calculations take place in the background, the result of each calculation is stored, used in further calculations..etc etc. To make things short lets just say..the ebay example.

Question: what technology is being used in ebay (as a back-end) to take care of its business? Is is PHP or MySQL or????


Thanks.

 

[tviman]

Probably Oracle - but who knows?

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[ChrisHirst]

If you look at some of the eBAy URLs most reference dll's and ISAPI.dlls. So a good guess would be IIS with precompiled executables.
A quick check with Netcraft reveals Win 2003 (IIS6) so MS SQL is a likely back-end.



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[qwert85103]

OK..then for where do you set events (just like you have in VB..like on click do this). In what language (or package..I do not know) can you set events on web page interface? (like on click of a button a set of query should execute for the database).

 

[ChrisHirst]

If I've got that right, you have to code them up in the back-end (server-side) scripting. ASP, PHP, Perl, Python etc.

In eBay's case it's more likely to be a compiled web app written in C or C++ rather than a scripting language, simply to improve the performance.


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