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You know, Facebook, you can just buy these things from companies that spend all of their R&D exclusively on making them. Not invented here..
by revelation 12y ago
You know, Facebook, you can just buy these things from companies that spend all of their R&D exclusively on making them.
Not invented here..
- philipw 12y agoYou say this but there's a huge difference of the typical enterprise storage solution and what the internet giants require. Only recently are those vendors realising this...
- cmurf 12y agoThose are arguably antiquated models. Even if you don't agree with that, those models are predicated on companies that don't actually know what they're doing when it comes to storage, which is why they defer to others and pay the markup that comes with it. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, many others (and growing), this is their business now, to know how to reliably store things, do it in-house in a way that works for their use case. I don't use Facebook at all, but I appreciate the many investments they've made in open hardware and open source software. They don't give away everything. But they definitely contribute in significant ways.