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Akamai handles 15-30% of all web traffic on any given day with 200k-300k servers...does Facebook have that kind of load in a day? The problem is mostly a CDN o
by jaypaulynice 9y ago
Akamai handles 15-30% of all web traffic on any given day with 200k-300k servers...does Facebook have that kind of load in a day?
The problem is mostly a CDN one, crunching data and writing to the servers are second to actually serving users fast.
For example, I don't necessarily need to see the latest posts, comments, etc. so you can queue up the writing and sync data later, but when I hit fb.com, I have to see stuff...
- ADefenestrator 9y agoI think working for Akamai you're looking at things in a rather CDN-centric sort of way, but shuffling bits around is a relatively small percentage of what Facebook does. Actually doing things with the data beyond serving it up takes a lot more servers. The "CDN-equivalent" servers in PoPs etc for FB are a a pretty small percentage of the total, and the bulk are things like web/cache/search/DB servers.