• eBay Taps Dell Triton Systems To Overclock Search Engines

    June 2, 2016

    While online auctioneer eBay does not run the largest search engine in the world, search is a very key component of its service, which has over 162 million active buyers and 900 million product listings. Looking to improve upon its current hardware infrastructure underpinning its search engine, eBay has tapped Dell to create a new water-cooled, hyperscale-style rack system that will let it overclock its servers and boost their performance on compute-intensive search algorithms.

    The hyperscalers are all a bit cagey about the search engine infrastructure that they use because it is such a critical component of what they do, …

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  • Inside eBay’s Shift To Kubernetes And Containers Atop OpenStack

    November 12, 2015

    Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. Like its peers, the large number of users on its service – it has 159 million active buyers in 190 countries and over 800 million product listings on its service – and the infrastructure scale that is required to support them forces eBay to embrace new technologies ahead of more conservative and smaller enterprises.

    Three years ago, eBay was an early and enthusiastic user of OpenStack for managing its cloudy infrastructure, after having shifted its fleet of virtualized …

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