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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. Open source by Norsefire · · Score: 5, Funny

    As I recall, some of their code was made open source in 2007, although not deliberately.

    1. Re:Open source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      *whoosh*

  2. Re:whatever by AHuxley · · Score: 4, Funny

    To quote a joke on slashdot
    "Is there anything Java cannot make slow."

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  3. Re:One question: by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft has announced the infrastructure for its cloud computing service Azure, formerly (and presently) Windows Vapor.

    "We want all open source innovation to happen on Windows. In practice, Windows is too slow, and just putting Linux underneath the same software stack triples performance. So we're running the Windows versions of the software on Linux using Wine."

    The new Microsoft Amazingly Open And Genuine Public License allows you complete freedom to use, modify and redistribute the software provided that every copy comes with a DVD of Windows Vista Ultimate, you acknowledge that Microsoft's FAT patent protects a remarkable and valuable innovation in computer science and all documentation is in OOXML.

    (work in progress, not yet on notnews)

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  4. Re:whatever by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too paraphrase the answer:
    "Sun's stock price plummet.