25 Years of Software Development: Inside the Zoho Success Story
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Zoho claims 55+ applications, 80 million registered users and 500,000 paying organizations, run by 11,000 employees on a single owned stack rather than public cloud. Engineering choices are concrete: Java/Linux/Postgres servers, custom columnar, time-series and graph databases, FPGAs and ASIC work, and 10 data centers (adding 4) plus edge accelerators. Development uses hundreds of microservices, a Deluge scripting language, a unified data model with no duplicate entities, and a public backend offering called Catalyst backend-as-a-service. Core rules: no heavy work on user thread and no single point of failure.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Zoho
- 2:04The Apple model philosophy
- 3:35Technical stack and apps
- 7:28Engineering convictions
- 9:25Unified software infrastructure
- 12:07Hardware and data centers
- 14:05Catalyst platform overview
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