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How Facebook Runs Its LAMP Stack

Posted by Soulskill on from the very-carefully-and-sometimes-not dept.

prostoalex writes "At QCon San Francisco, Aditya Agarwal of Facebook described how his employer runs its software stack (video and slides). Facebook runs a typical LAMP setup where P stands for PHP with certain customizations, and back-end services that are written in C++ and Java. Facebook has released some of the infrastructure components into the open source community, including the Thrift RPC framework and Scribe distributed logging server."

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  1. the blame is with management by speedtux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That has little to do with the infrastructure and more to do with the site design. Please don't blame the sys engineers/admins for the poor interface design.

    Well, the fact that they gave a talk about their LAMP stack tells you that they consider engineering more important than site design. Furthermore, a poor choice of infrastructure makes doing good site design hard.

    And that's my point: Facebook is evidently driven by system stuff and programmers, while it should be driven by site design.

  2. Re:One question: by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not quite. As I understand it, Oracle is used pretty heavily in the back end. It propagates out to faster-but-looser MySQL systems for web display.

    Not that I disagree with you about the tardery of most MySQL "admins". ;-)

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