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How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the laser-printer-and-a-warehouse-i-figure dept.

David Gobaud writes "Jason Sobel, the manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, gave an interesting presentation titled Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos at Stanford for the Stanford ACM. Jason explains how Facebook efficiently stores ~6.5 billion images, in 4 or 5 sizes each, totaling ~30 billion files, and a total of 540 TB and serving 475,000 images per second at peak. The presentation is now online here in the form of a Flowgram."

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  1. Re:Very interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If I'm going to watch an hour-long presentation, there better be titties.

    Lots and lots of titties.