Architectural Issues in Building a High Volume E-Commerce Company
Manavendra Misra · IETE Technical Review · 2000
Creating the systems to handle a large volume of traffic and transactions for an e-commerce company requires careful design, and a significant investment in capital and personnel. This paper raises some of the architectural issues that have to be considered in designing such systems, and provides pointers to a subset of companies that try and solve the problems that high volume ecommerce companies face. Although not an exhaustive review of companies in each space, it will provide an overview of the issues that a technology team will have to consider, and possible solutions.