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What IS Facebook's underlaying technology? I Googled, but nothing substantial.

• eusman 19y ago
  pure sand
• staunch 19y ago
  They're running a massive web app. That means they have all the usual stuff any site would need. I imagine it's mostly just a matter of adding enough servers to handle their growing load. They must do quite a bit of data crunching as well. Their third party app infrastructure must be quite significant. They're proxying and processing huge amounts of traffic. Almost certainly doing it with a custom server app that's probably quite interesting technically. A huge portion of that $150M must be going towards network infrastructure (where it's damned easy to spend millions) and datacenter space/power, etc.