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While I understand they want their own server farms, it is interesting that Facebook does not use any cloud compute. This is almost the perfect usage example a
by asharpe 13y ago
While I understand they want their own server farms, it is interesting that Facebook does not use any cloud compute. This is almost the perfect usage example and pattern for cloud compute.
- CSDude 13y agoIf you mean cloud providers, it would be very expensive for Facebook scale, cloud is not that cheap, having own infrastructure would be more efficient
- randartie 13y agoFacebook has some of the largest data-centers in the world, with plenty of spare capacity. In the article they describe that running these HUGE jobs put them at risk of not potentially not being able to provide power to all the machines at once. If you're thinking they could have just started up a ec2 job to process a billion videos, I really doubt there's any cloud solution in the world right now that can handle this scale without capacity planning before hand.