Re: Tom kyte's New book

From: Geomancer <pharfromhome_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 12 Sep 2003 23:52:22 -0700
Message-ID: <cf90fb89.0309122252.4a9402f6@posting.google.com>

> Hope Matt Swann gets a laugh, I doubt if out of the gazillion things
> they have, anybody would even care.
>
> Any public info anywhere on Amazon's configuration? I see hints on
> technet about a 32 processor 2 node HP and something about Linux, but
> no real details. I bet it is _so cool_.

Jeremiah Wilton, the senior Oracle DBA at Amazon (and Oracle's DBA of the year) did a presentation on it at OracleWorld a few years back. Yeah, it is cool.

Their personalization engine (Oracle-based) compares book purchasing patterns and pairs books with similar sales and demographic patterns. Received on Sat Sep 13 2003 - 01:52:22 CDT