[dba-Tech] Software Behind FaceBook

Janet Erbach jerbach at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 20:40:54 CDT 2010


Jim -

Speaking of writing another facebook...have you seen this?


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/nyregion/12about.html?dbk

Steven came across it somewhere.

Janet Erbach

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On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:36 AM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> The FaceBook site is by far the largest single database in the  
> world. The
> amount of data that this organization moves daily is almost on an
> unimaginable scale.
>
> The interesting point is that all the software they use is open- 
> source.
> There are a number of fabulous packages they use.
>
> I had set up a site with Erlan a while back but simply ran out of  
> time (the
> curse of the working man) and space to get the product fully  
> operational and
> am now preparing to get a group project together to implement  
> Cassandra but
> not until this fall at the earliest... we are planning a business  
> around
> this implementation. I have already downloaded HipHop for PHP and  
> done some
> testing... I just do not have enough PHP code to really test this  
> app as
> what is faster than instantaneous...
>
> The following link is fascinating; with a list of software that you  
> too
> could use to create another FaceBook sized application or just build  
> a super
> fast website of your own:
>
> http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/
>
> Check it out...
>
> Jim
>
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