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Facebook Usage Hits 16 Billion Minutes a Day
1sockchuck writes "Facebook's 400 million users spend more than 16 billion minutes on the site every day, and view 1 million photos every second. That's prompted massive growth in the social network's infrastructure, which now encompasses more than 60,000 servers. Facebook's Tom Cook discussed how the company's operations team manages that growth in a presentation last week at the O"Reilly Velocity conference (video). The next day at Structure 2010, Facebook Vice President of Operations Jonathan Heiliger said server and chip makers have 'come a long way' in supporting cloud platforms since he bashed them last year."
I believe the quote goes more or less like this...
"When I was 18 I hated my father... I thought he was the stupidest old man that ever lived. When I became 21 I was amazed at how much the old man had grown in just 3 short years."
granted it's not a cara analogy, it'll do (but I am sure some kind soul can turn that into a car analogy :)
Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that
Insightful? Wow, just wow.