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E-Business Technology

E-Business Technology- Amazon .com

Amazon is one of the first major companies that started an ecommerce website for selling goods online . The e-business based in Washington started initially as a bookstore , but due to its success diversified into other goods

This website went through a big architectural change and moved from a two tier monolith to a distributed , decentralized services platform that serves many different applications . From this we see that the hardware they maintain at Amazon includes databases at different locations that are serving a set of applications . Originally the

e-store started as one application that was linked to a back end written in C . This however changed once the e-store grew its products

The website is highly service oriented and has divided its databases into small parts that act as service interfaces . The architecture is built around several application servers that provide service to different applications . The webpage itself is one of the application servers and also has other servers like the customer service application and the seller interface

The application does not use a specific approach and at certain places uses Jboss or java , but they don 't use the entire j2EE stack they only use the servlets . For the process requests that they service they use C , but for the building of the content they either use Pearl or Mason

Amazon probably has one of the largest Xen installations and it has modified and adapted the Xen version . The exact version that they use is not...

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