The monthly great conference from the CERN:

Speaker: Paul Strong, eBay Research Labs

Title: Delivering eBay’s Virtual Economy – The Problems Solved And The Challenges Ahead

Time and Place: Wednesday 2 May, 14:00-15:00, CERN Council Chamber

Abstract: eBay’s infrastructure is perhaps atypical of those of today’s enterprises, but is typical of what many enterprise infrastructures will need to become in the future: The combination of a platform, a Grid, comprised of vast numbers of networked commodity, and notionally cheap components, delivering a more or less continuously available set of massively distributed web services. In the case of eBay these resolve to a virtual economy. This presentation will describe how eBay evolved and created this massively horizontally scaling infrastructure, delivering high quality of service and business agility, what the challenges are that arise from this success and how these are being addressed.

Participation is open to all and free of charge. To register for an
access card to CERN, please contact francois.grey@cern.ch.

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