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The Open Source technology Used By Facebook |
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Facebook’s scaling challengeBefore we get into the details, here are a few factoids to give you an idea of the scaling challenge that Facebook has to deal with:open source technology used Facebook
Software that helps Facebook scaleIn some ways Facebook is still a LAMP site (kind of), but it has had to change and extend its operation to incorporate a lot of other elements and services, and modify the approach to existing ones. For example:
Then there are the custom-written systems, like Haystack, a highly scalable object store used to serve Facebook’s immense amount of photos, or Scribe, a logging system that can operate at the scale of Facebook (which is far from trivial). But enough of that. Let’s present (some of) the software that Facebook uses to provide us all with the world’s largest social network site.
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