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Inside Facebook's Infrastructure

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the when-it-crashes-it-burns dept.

miller60 writes "Facebook served up 690 billion page views to its 540 million users in August, according to data from Google's DoubleClick. How does it manage that massive amount of traffic? Data Center Knowledge has put together a guide to the infrastructure powering Facebook, with details on the size and location of its data centers, its use of open source software, and its dispute with Greenpeace over energy sourcing for its newest server farm. There are also links to technical presentations by Facebook staff, including a 2009 technical presentation on memcached by CEO Mark Zuckerberg."

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  1. Slashdotted by devjoe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe Data Center Knowledge should put some of that knowledge to work, as the article is slashdotted after only 5 comments.

  2. Cache by minus9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obligatory Coral cache link: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com.nyud.net/the-facebook-data-center-faq/

  3. Yawn.. move along by uncledrax · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article isn't worth reading IMO, not unless you're curious as to how much electricity some of the FB datacenters use. Otherwise it's light on the tech details.

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    1. Re:Yawn.. move along by drsmithy · · Score: 2, Informative

      The article isn't worth reading IMO, not unless you're curious as to how much electricity some of the FB datacenters use. Otherwise it's light on the tech details.

      Indeed. "All you wanted to know about FaceBook's infrastructure" and little more than a passing mention about their storage ? That's vastly more interesting information than where their datacenters might physically be.