"At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users. This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that."
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Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site | Royal Pingdom
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/
- Tags:
- sysadmin
- opensource
- scaling
- scalability
- webdev
- php
- Architecture
- server
- memcached
- scale
- cassandra
June 30 2010, 10:39am | Comments
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97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know-the-book
"97 axioms selected for the book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, to be published by O'Reilly Media in early 2009. The contents are edited for publishing - you can see them here. "
February 22 2009, 6:14am | Comments
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The Share-Nothing Architecture
http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/09/01/the-share-nothing-architecture
"What scalability is and how it’s different from speed, as they’re often mixed up"
January 31 2009, 8:37pm | Comments
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