It might be a nitpick, but I wonder what you mean by this statement: - QQ.com, Taobao.com, Baidu.com. Given that the Chinese do not pioneer web platforms, I do

It might be a nitpick, but I wonder what you mean by this statement: - QQ.com, Taobao.com, Baidu.com. Given that the Chinese do not pioneer web platforms, I don't see why they'd do this. From what I've seen and heard, this isn't true. Taobao in particular seems to be running on a pretty cool stack, and has contributed a lot with OpenResty, which is nginx with modules, LuaJIT and some goodness, backed by Redis, Memcached, MySQL and/or Postgres (inside nginx' event model). See http://openresty.org/ http://openresty.org/