Design Patterns for Internet-Scale Services

Internet-scale services need new design patterns and programming models for the partitioned data set with many copies that are changed independently. This is a huge software challenge. Big Web sites spend 70% of their efforts on undifferentiated heavy lifting (e.g., partitioning, replication and scaling) versus 30% on differentiated value (feature) creation. This talk will review the challenges for Internet-scale services and some of the emerging solutions to address those challenges, based on our experience in building Internet-scale service platforms as well as the industry best practices.