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That's ridiculous. Facebook is incredibly innovative as well, even more-so than Twitter. They're solving huge scalability problems that nobody else has encounte
by thematt 15y ago
That's ridiculous. Facebook is incredibly innovative as well, even more-so than Twitter. They're solving huge scalability problems that nobody else has encountered before.
- carbonica 15y agoThe only new scalability issue that Facebook has tackled is how to scale one enormous MySQL database. They've primarily done this by sharding it thousands upon thousands of times and putting over 10,000 memcached instances in front of it. Most everything else they've confronted was done by Amazon and Google years before Facebook had to.
- swombat 15y agoFacebook as a product to monetize is not innovative. It's a website serving targeted ads. Twitter is a new kind of messaging service. How to monetize that is not so clear.