Taobao.com breaks record for online sales in a day - $3.1 billion USD
Surprised nobody is talking about the most interesting part.<p>Taobao runs almost entirely on Nginx-Lua-MySQL. And I mean entirely. There is no application server just Nginx. And every request is non blocking all the way from user to database and back. Very, very fast.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390816" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390816</a><p>In fact one of the developers from Taobao wrote the Lua integration.