Sky.com relaunches written in Grails
Posted by:
Graeme Rocher
on 2008-10-07 08:22:00.0
The main portal for Sky television has relaunched written in Grails. Sky, also known as British Sky Broadcasting or BSkyB, employs 17000 people in the UK and operates the largest satellite network in the UK.
The site receives a million+ hits per day and joins all the other subsites also written in Grails:
Congrats to the Sky team!
Update 07/10: Couple of new things have arison since this was posted. Firstly, Sky actually employ 17000 people not 11000. Seems the Google sample data I obtained was out of date.
Also Glenn Saqui has a nice write-up on the architecture of Sky.com on Marc's Blog. Altogether the 4 subsites listed above receive over 110 million hits per month and run on a cluster of web layer machines and 2 db machines. Checkout the aforementioned link for more info.
The site receives a million+ hits per day and joins all the other subsites also written in Grails:
Congrats to the Sky team!
Update 07/10: Couple of new things have arison since this was posted. Firstly, Sky actually employ 17000 people not 11000. Seems the Google sample data I obtained was out of date.
Also Glenn Saqui has a nice write-up on the architecture of Sky.com on Marc's Blog. Altogether the 4 subsites listed above receive over 110 million hits per month and run on a cluster of web layer machines and 2 db machines. Checkout the aforementioned link for more info.
Graeme Rocher's complete blog can be found at: http://graemerocher.blogspot.com
About Graeme Rocher
As Head of Grails Development for SpringSource, Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Graeme joined SpringSource in late 2008 upon the acquisition of G2One Inc. Before founding G2One, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in open source technology and agile software development, where Graeme was in charge of the company's courseware development strategy and general technical direction.
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