The Architecture of Mailinator
In this article Paul Tyma talks how he designed and implemented his great Mailinator system, a service which provides free short-lived throw-away email addresses. This article is a great read in systems design. The Mailinator receives around 2-5 Million emails a day and runs on a very modest machine with an AMD 2Ghz Athlon processor, 1G of ram, and a boring IDE, 80G hard drive. It also shows that Java is good and solves real world problems reliably and fast.
Links:
http://mailinator.blogspot.com/
August 16 2007 09:17 pm | Geek Stuff
