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Ask HN: How would you rebuild Facebook?
If you had to rebuild Facebook from scratch right now what would you do differently (from a software architecture perspective)? What technologies would you use, and how would you make it more scalable from ground up?
More generally: what concepts and technologies are key in making a highly scalable web application similar to Facebook?
- lcnmrn 12y agoI’m building http://sublevel.net http://sublevel.net using Django. I’m making sure everything is as simple as possible from code to UI to API.
- bikamonki 12y agoI would go with something similar to the Diaspora Project: descentralized social network.
- anderspetersson 12y agoIf Zuck would have tried to build what now is Facebook he would never have launched, so I would keep it simple, using the tech I already know like he did. Highscalability.com have some articles about Facebook's architecture here: http://highscalability.com/blog/category/facebook http://highscalability.com/blog/category/facebook