Inside the Wayback Machine

22 Jan 2002

O'Reilly has an interview with Brewster Kahle, the director of the Internet Archive. Kahle describes how the Archive and the Wayback Machine are built. A good read for anyone building systems that need massive scale on a budget.

"You can build amazing systems out of these bricks that cost only a couple hundred dollars each, and you just throw more bricks at the problem to give it more computer power, more RAM, more disk, more network bandwidth, whatever it is you need." - O'Reilly Network: How the Wayback Machine Works [Jan. 21, 2002]

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