This presentation was given by Jeff Meyer, Distinguished Architect (another nice job name!!) with PayPal. As he explained, more on a Software Architect than SysAdmin side. In my opinion this presentation was very shallow regarding architecture. I wasn't expecting an in depth presentation about the insides of their platform (for obvious reasons like security, business interests and time-boxed presentation), but it could be a little bit more into the platform architecture.
Anyway, Jeff gave some information about the technologies they use, like:
- Application Servers are Linux Based over Intel
- C++ is used to write most of the code of the platform
- Apache on the front-end with CGI
- webscr to handle the browser based interaction
- Frontend SOAP and Normal Value Pairs (NPV)
- SSL
- Oracle Database (on Solaris)
Well, that was pretty much everything new for someone used to dealing with on-line payments, like me.
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