How Flipkart Scales PHP - By Flipkart Search Lead, Siddhartha Reddy

Siddhartha Reddy leads the technology search team at Flipkart, India's biggest online destination for shopping. Flipkart generates thousands of sales every day which means the engineering team that keeps the show going have a tough task to do. Even a minute of downtime would mean serious loss of business and the responsibility is quite high on the engineering team. I just searched online to find out how engineering teams at Flipkart manage a highly scalable environment at Flipkart and what technology stack they employ. Found out an interesting presentation on Slideshare :- <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/sids/how-flipkart-scales-php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How Flipkart scales PHP</a>

Interesting, isn't it? Has anyone worked on a project of massive size?

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  • Ankita Katdare

    Ankita Katdare

    @abrakadabra • May 16, 2012

    Quite a good share. Is there a video of his talk somewhere?

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  • Anoop Kumar

    Anoop Kumar

    @anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • May 16, 2012

    I go throuth some 50 pages... They are basically talking about load balancing and how it is impletemented in Flipkart.

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  • Siddhartha Reddy

    Siddhartha Reddy

    @siddhartha-reddy-l3xoAR • May 17, 2012

    The_Big_K, thanks for your interest. Almost every system at Flipkart becomes more challenging and interesting due to the scale.

    Just one clarification: I do not lead the technology team at Flipkart — I am the Tech Lead for one of the teams (the Search Team to be specific). Can you please edit your post to reflect this?

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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • May 17, 2012

    #-Link-Snipped-# : Good to see you on CE. I've updated the article. Flipkart is awesome and I congratulate your team for it. I remember a talk by someone at Facebook that they had to re-write PHP core to make sure Facebook keeps scaling. Anticipating the traffic growth, do you plan on doing something similar?

    I'd also like to know your thoughts on scaling for smaller websites; that is, would you recommend opting for two 8 GB servers serving files & database OR just one big 16 GB server handling both?

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