Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jun 21 21:03:18 CDT 2010
The first statement, in the article, against FaceBook absorbing all the information we are will to give it has never been my concern. <Rant mode on> My concerns is that they (FaceBook) feel they now own that information and are free to sell any personal information, they have collected to the highest bidder and that information that you have given them is now their property. <Rant mode off> More power to these guys... Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Janet Erbach Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 6:41 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Software Behind FaceBook 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 Sent from my iPod 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com