'crappy ColdFusion'? Oh my god, whoever feed you that line was blowing hot air. Please name a technology available in early 1998 that could scale to 10,000 concurrent users which a team of four people could implement in four months. Right, there wasn't any! While CF had a lot of issues, it was *not* the cause of the Amazon deal. It was solely due to warehousing issues.
You may have 'a friend with inside contacts', but I was the Team Lead who wrote much of the TRU website. The CF code base was cutting edge; incorporating an in-memory cache for thousands of items on hundreds of servers. We reviewed and rejected TimesTen - ours was better. The shopping cart (Hi Chad!) was the *most* advanced in the world enabling many different types of discounts and bundles. Our Content Management system used Portal concepts (moving portlets around the page, columns to organize dynamic info) way before Portals were well understood.
My name is David Medinets, google away if you doubt me.
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'crappy ColdFusion'? Oh my god, whoever feed you that line was blowing hot air. Please name a technology available in early 1998 that could scale to 10,000 concurrent users which a team of four people could implement in four months. Right, there wasn't any! While CF had a lot of issues, it was *not* the cause of the Amazon deal. It was solely due to warehousing issues.
You may have 'a friend with inside contacts', but I was the Team Lead who wrote much of the TRU website. The CF code base was cutting edge; incorporating an in-memory cache for thousands of items on hundreds of servers. We reviewed and rejected TimesTen - ours was better. The shopping cart (Hi Chad!) was the *most* advanced in the world enabling many different types of discounts and bundles. Our Content Management system used Portal concepts (moving portlets around the page, columns to organize dynamic info) way before Portals were well understood.
My name is David Medinets, google away if you doubt me.