Delivering EBay's Virtual Economy - The Problems Solved And The Challenges Ahead

by Strong, Paul (eBay Research Labs)

Wednesday 2 May 2007, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

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.


Speaker Bio: Paul Strong is a distinguished research scientist at eBay Research Labs. He is focused on enterprise grid architectures and technologies, and is driving the long term vision and strategy for eBay's infrastructure within that context. He is also vice-chair of the Open Grid Forum. Prior to joining eBay, Strong was a systems architect at Sun Microsystems where he focused on grid standards and the N1 product set. Strong was chair of the Enterprise Grid Alliance technical steering committee and its reference model working group, where he edited/co-authored the EGA Reference Model. He holds a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Manchester, England.

Organiser(s): François Grey / IT Department