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A not so interesting infrastructure that FB will probably overhaul. I think the author does not realize that facebook runs on custom server hardware, php/Hipho
by zerostar07 15y ago
A not so interesting infrastructure that FB will probably overhaul. I think the author does not realize that facebook runs on custom server hardware, php/Hiphop, a bunch of open source stuff they contribute to like cassandra, memcached, varnish etc. The size of facebook and its platform is simply staggering. I 'm pretty sure their engineers are going to be hard to be impressed by these.
- pjscott 15y agoThis architecture went far enough to get them acquired for a lot of money, so while it may not be a miracle of ingenuity, it's worth studying as an example of something that worked.
- waterlesscloud 15y agoIt does raise the question of whether you even need any real ingenuity on the back end for this sort of startup...
- zerostar07 15y agoyou probably need some to create it though
- regularfry 15y agoThinking that you need ingenuity is often the root of problems.
- zerostar07 15y ago... in the sense that the typeface of famous books is worth studying as an example of how to write a good book?
- cageface 15y agoOr, we've learned that even the biggest web companies can now be built with fairly vanilla technology and that obsessing over clever bespoke scaling schemes is largely a waste of time.
- Tossrock 15y agoI think it'd be more accurate to say "Even /fairly large/ web companies can now be built [et cetera]". Good luck putting Google on AWS. Or (relevant to the name of this website) AWS.
- cageface 15y agoI think now you could even build a fledgling Google on AWS. Once you start getting real traction then you may outgrow it but there's really no point in even talking about those steps until you have a few million users beating down your door.