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Web scale: Facebook's architecture
Can someone at Facebook verify whether this answer is accurate/mostly accurate?
- jpren 15y agoCan someone at Facebook verify if the answer on Quora is accurate/mostly accurate?
- orijing 15y agoIt's basically accurate. Also, there are upvotes from notable employees at Facebook like Andrew Bosworth
- tkahnoski 15y agoIt seems to be pretty consistent with the engineering blog http://m.facebook.com/Engineering?_rdr http://m.facebook.com/Engineering?_rdr Great to see this in one place. I would love to know more about the more internal facing systems (code deployment, test frameworks, failover systems...).
- ChuckMcM 15y agoI like the anon comment that they should not re-invent the wheel so much. That gave me a chuckle, I'll just use my off the shelf distributed web app deployment software that runs on thousands of machines ... oh snap!
- shin_lao 15y agoWhat's facebook take on memcached? Are they happy with it?
- orijing 15y agoIt worked well in the past. They made significant improvements to it. However, it's not as well-suited for multi-datacenter usage. For example, they needed another replication layer. I think they're working on a current system that will replace memcached, and it seems to be causing some consistency problems...
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- andymac 15y agoDo you have any additional details about this possible memcached replacement?
- orijing 15y agoI do, but I'm not sure if I should say anything about it. Sorry. It's not open-sourced (yet), like everything else is.
- shin_lao 15y agoThe new system is causing consistency problems or memcached?
- mcobrien 15y agoFrom the comments at Quora, this presentation is great (and dated this month): http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Infrastructure-at-Facebook http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Infrastructure-at-Faceboo...