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It's always been written in PHP, and they released a compiler for the language that they developed in house: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/02/02/facebook-
by japherwocky 16y ago
It's always been written in PHP, and they released a compiler for the language that they developed in house:
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/02/02/facebook-open-sources-hiphop-php-compiler-software/ http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/02/02/facebook-open-sourc...
- zalew 16y agoand MySQL http://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook http://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7899307130 http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7899307130 More interesting are how they use technologies rather than only which one, f.ex this: http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/02/facebook-makes-their-web-pages-faster/ http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/02/facebook-makes-their-web-...
- badave 16y agoDon't forget about Cassandra, which they developed just for scalability issues that they were having, and is now used at Digg and other sites (I think reddit uses it for something as well now) http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=24413138919 http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=24413138919