"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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stu.mp
"I program in, write about, and present on PHP, Python, Django and scaling websites."
March 23 2010, 7:02pm | Comments
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Crucial Concepts Behind Advanced Regular Expressions
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/06/introduction-to-advanced-regular-expressions/
An introduction to advanced regular expressions, with eight commonly used concepts and examples. Each example outlines a simple way to match patterns in complex strings.
May 7 2009, 6:09pm | 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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