158 orders per second

Many people remember the times when 20 hits per second seemed like a heavy load on the server, only the coolest websites had this, but now everything has changed. The infrastructure of modern e-commerce giants is amazing: data centers, replication, load balancing, payment processing, order processing, cloud computing, etc. All this is necessary in order to withstand the load of 158 orders per second at the peak moment of mass shopping, as it was on Monday, November 29, 2010 (Cyber ​​Monday) on Amazon.com .

In one day, Amazon sent more than 9 million goods to 178 countries of the world.

Of course, this day on Amazon was set a historical record of sales. In general, for November 29, $ 1.028 billion worth of goods were purchased in American online stores, and thanks to its infrastructure, Amazon received a good share of the holiday pie.

The most popular products in the largest online store were electronic readers Kindle Wi-Fi and Kindle 3G, while Kindle 3G overtook the book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in the list of the most popular products in the history of Amazon.
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For some other product groups, the bestseller list looks like this.

Electronics
Kindle wifi
Kindle 3G
Apple iPod touch 8GB

Toys
Scrabble flash cubes
board game Qwirkle
designer LEGO Ultimate Building Set

Video games and iron
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Just Dance 2,
Donkey Kong Country Returns

Films
"Start"
"Invisible side"
Toy Story 3

EBooks
John Grisham. "Confession"
George Bush. The book of memoirs "Tipping points"
Laura Hillenbrand. "Unbroken"

Soft
Anime studio debut 7
Manga Studio Debut 4
Adobe Photoshop Elements 9

Mobile devices
Samsung Captivate (Android)
HTC DROID INCREDIBLE (Android)
Motorola DROID X (Android)