Behind the Scenes at Hotmail

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 13, 2006 @04:12AM from the that's-a-big-datacenter-you-have-grandma dept.

mallumax writes "ACM Queue interviews Hotmail engineer Phil Smoot on how they manage more than 10,000 servers spread around the globe. Between them, they process billions of emails per day and are overseen by hundreds of administrators. To do that they have returned to the command line. From the article: 'Our operations group never wants to rely on any sort of user interface. Everything has to be scriptable and run from some sort of command line'. The overriding philosophy seems to be KISS. Also: tape backups are out and spam levels have stabilized."

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Phil Smoot??? by www.sorehands.com · 2006-01-13 04:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is that a name? I thought smoot was a unit of measurement.

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Fight Spammers!
Hotmale by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-13 05:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

How about a behind the scenes at hotmale.com?
Hotmail and Libraries by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-13 05:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Kind of off topic, but I was kicked out of a public library for a day because I mentioned Hotmail to the librarian. She thought I was visiting some adult website...
Re:I wonder.... by spacedude89 · 2006-01-13 05:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

lol, that was a pretty good movie.