High Performance and Scalability – Facebook
Jeff Rothschild, Vice President of Technology at Facebook gives an interesting presentation about “High performance at massive scale – lessons learned at Facebook” held at the center of networked systems at UC San Diego.
Some impressive facts presented
Facebook have 300M active users (no big secret)
They now have 30,000 server, adding new capacity daily.
They store 80 billion images (20 billion images in 4 sizes).
They serve 600,000 photos/second.
They generate more than 25 terabytes logging data per day
They have 230 engineers on staff, which means a ratio of more than 1 million active users per engineer…
Watch the webcast below
amazing..! i didn’t know that much about facebook before