Question

Does anyone have a good link to know what technologies and platform is being used to power the Android Marketplace?

What would be the best way to create a cost effective “clone” for a smaller audience?

Is it built on top of Google App Engine? Does anyone have an article describing the architecture behind that project?

I think people are not reading the question correctly… I am looking for an overview to the architectural problem, not just that it’s a servlet, or asp page, etc… I am wondering if there is a paper or article on this topic, or Amazon Android store.

Answer 1

They use the same infrastructure as other Google service, which is

Distributed Systems Infrastructure:

1. GFS (Google File System),
2. MapReduce,
3. BigTable,
4. Geo-distributed.

Article :

1. High Scalability Google Architecture (The detail of what I wrote on top )
2. Video: Building Large Systems at Google
3. How Google Works
4. Google Lab: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

And for your question about "What would be the best way to create a cost effective "clone" for a smaller audience?"

1. If you want to clone Android MarketPlace:

   I believe you should ask Google Engineer by yourself. Check their contacts in Google Developer Advocates Please share later. 🙂 I know this could be done since in my country each telco has their own marketplace.

2. Else If you want to clone the Google Architecture :

   Google Apps Engine, because it’s the Google Architecture in a smaller size. But Google Apps Engine is not really geo-distributed, because last week I just heard from Google Engineer that Google Apps Engine is currently deployed only in America and Europe. ( While other services are distributed all over the world )