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How many people do you actually need to run a website? The whole thing can be maintained by a small team probably.
by waltz 13y ago
How many people do you actually need to run a website? The whole thing can be maintained by a small team probably.
- randartie 13y agoYou're greatly underestimating the complexity of Facebook. I bet they have greater than 200,000 machines. Creating the infrastructure to just manage and deploy to those machines would already go beyond your 'small team'. Not sure how you imagine a 'small team' managing a system that has an exabyte of data. From network infrastructure all the way down to cold storage, a 'small team' would be needed for each.