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Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lotta-load dept.

1sockchuck writes "Facebook now has 140 million users, and in recent weeks has been adding 600,000 new users a day. To keep pace with that growth, the Facebook engineering team has been tweaking its use of memcached, and says it can now handle 200,000 UDP requests per second. Facebook has detailed its refinements to memcached, which it hopes will be included in the official memcached repository. For now, their changes have been released to github."

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  1. Re:I have been wondering for a while... by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Informative

    Myspace used to run on cold fusion but switched to .NET. facebook runs on LAMP, though they have a customized MySQL and a customized linux kernel with support for the hierarchial page pinning algorithm.

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  2. Re:Wow by madhurms · · Score: 5, Informative

    From hardware perspective, Facebook uses 10,000 web servers and 1800 database servers to handle the massive traffic.

  3. Re:I have been wondering for a while... by duguk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope. Facebook has more unique visitors per month, MySpace had approximately 106 millions users as of 8th September 2008, and FTFS, facebook has 140 million (Wikipedia says 120 million.)

  4. Re:Wow by madhurms · · Score: 5, Informative

    And they also use about 200 memcached servers to speed things up.

    Source: http://frro.net/blog/2008/04/26/just-how-big-is-facebooks-infrastructure/