The infrastructure behind one of the most popular sites in Greece

engineering.skroutz.gr

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I've wrote a small Sinatra application using their API to check/compare prices.

I remember that the guy who was responsible for the API support was replying quickly. After a few emails, he told that he was actually on vacations replying from his mobile or something, which I thought was kinda cool... The guy (@zorbas or something) was literally in love with his job.

Yeap @_zorbash (at twitter) is still responsible for the API. It is true that we really enjoy our job at skroutz. :)

"Our MongoDB dataset is far bigger than our relational data, weighing in at 400 GB and constantly growing."

MongoDB keeps indexes in RAM IIRC. How much RAM does your server have? :-)

It runs on our most powerful server with 96G RAM :)

Appropriately timed for Sysadmin Day :)

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