A Week in the Valley: Ning
At the bottom level of Ning is a toolkit of Web 2.0 services (authentication, data store, tagging) made available through RESTian APIs. Anybody can use these, whether they use the rest of Ning or not. These are implemented in Java 5 (no J2EE), running on more than 20 Solaris boxes using virtualization with Solaris zones. Fast, and secure (no security violations since the public beta launched: zero).












