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Scaling Facebook with OpenSource tools

Scaling Facebook with OpenSource tools

Posted in Conferences, Development, Databases, Operating Systems, Companies

This talk will give you a better idea of what it takes to scale Facebook.From the day that Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 to today, the site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Today Facebook reaches over 350 million people per month, is the largest PHP site in the World, and has released major pieces o...

Tags: Conferences, PHP, Databases, MySQL, OS, Scalability, Linux, apache, Facebook, Memcached, Hive, ...



Velocity 09: John Adams, "Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability"

Velocity 09: John Adams, "Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability"

Posted in Conferences, Development, Frameworks, Companies

Twitter (twitter.com) is a micro-blogging service that allows users to answer the question “What are you doing?”. It takes a simple 140 character string (a tweet), and distributes that to a user’s following (or “friends”) list. Over the last few years, Twitter has experienced a variety of challenges scaling its site to serve millions and millions of users. From hos...

Tags: Conferences, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Frameworks, Scalability, Twitter, Performance, Development, oreilly media, Velocity 2009, Scarling, ...