"This might be getting less interesting to the general audience ..." Anything that you can say about actual engineering details at FB would certainly be of int

"This might be getting less interesting to the general audience ..." Anything that you can say about actual engineering details at FB would certainly be of interest to many of the people at HN. Large-scale social networks are like supercomputing. Few people get to see the inside of an operation which pushes the software/hardware envelope of size and performance.