Ask HN: What Hardware/Software Apple use in their own datacenters?

12 points by nkb ↗ HN
They do make great hardware/software for consumers but do they same HW/SW for their own datacenters?

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Pretty much everything runs on Java which each team having a different stack.

Full WebObjects/Project Wonder is used for iTunes Store. Just the web part of WebObjects used for the Apple Store. JBoss for Apple ID/ADC. Cassandra and Teradata used extensively. SAP for billing. Hadoop stack for analytics. The architecture generally is SOA/Microservices. Hardware is typical - nothing unusual.

The interesting parts are really Siri which uses Mesos and Apple's recent acquisition of FoundationDB.