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It is an interesting account of how they jump through hoops to keep the infrastructure at that scale despite an unfortunate initial choice regarding the program
by fmw 16y ago
It is an interesting account of how they jump through hoops to keep the infrastructure at that scale despite an unfortunate initial choice regarding the programming language (PHP won't really make their lives much easier at this scale). Hyves.nl, a Dutch social network, is also using this and contributing back to Facebook, according to a link to Git that was included in this article.
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- mcorrientes 16y agoindependent of the language, you would always have to jump through hoops at that scale. Turning PHP into a fast low level language was a great step and may have been required with other languages too. Until we don't know that facebook have problems writing clean code, I wouldn't judge them for using PHP.