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Do you have any reference material for the Yahoo architecture?

• makeitdouble 4y ago
  It was pretty basic so I’m not sure how much it was talked outside of Yahoo. I see this presentation http://www.radwin.org/michael/talks/php-at-yahoo-zend2005.pdf http://www.radwin.org/michael/talks/php-at-yahoo-zend2005.pd... providing an overview, but otherwise the basic principle was to have each addressable web server host an apache with a routing module, and that module will map a request path to a cgi file. With that structure you can have any number of layers with your front call and the different business abstractions all representated by an API (let’s say you want a user’s average engagement with a service, you’d hit the high level API, which will fetch access stats from another API, which rely on a lower level API which goes through another separate layer managing DB cache etc. Most of these call are of course internal to a data center.