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A Look Inside Facebook’s Data Center
April 17th, 2009 : Rich Miller
If your users are uploading 40 million photos a day, what does your data center look like? A new video seeking to recuit engineers for Facebook provides a glimpse of one of the social network’s data center facilities, along with some facts about the social network’s amazing growth. The company’s data centers store more than 40 billion photos, and users upload 40 million new photos each day – about 2,000 photos every second. Not surprisingly, the racks are packed. The facility is using a raised-floor design, with no containment but generous spacing between racks. Here’s the video, which runs about 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
For more about Facebook’s data centers, check out some of our previous coverage:
- Facebook Expanding Its Data Centers, Again
- Facebook Pushes Limits for memcached
- The Backstory: Facebook’s Virginia Data Center
- Facebook Now Running 10,000 Servers
If you’re interested in opportunities for engineers at Facebook, see their careers page.
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Posted April 17th, 2009[...] Feed I came across this article and the sheer amount of data they deal with just in the terms of photos is amazing. They have the [...]
WOW. A million users per engineer. Simply amazing organization.
Damn! And we thought keeping up with delivering packages within an hour took a lot of co-ordination!
Johnny Mnemonic
Posted April 17th, 2009glimpse is right.
The video is much about the photo service than any information on how FB is storing that data.
Aye, looked like a recruiting commercial for Facebook. Not a word about the architecture.
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My children have helped text msg’g hit a Trillion msgs this year and now they are contributing to the million photo’s from their cell phones. Cha Ching.
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Nathaniel
Posted May 21st, 2009I am the lead engineer for Dell at the east coast data center for facebook. All I can say is simply amazing what they are doing. Incredible the organization they have become!!
Marek
Posted June 24th, 2009Amazing stuff. One calculation puzzles me though. I don’t get the
2,000 photos/second = 40 million photos/day
There are 86,400 seconds in a day(24 hours). So,
40,000,000 / 86,400 = 463 photos per second. How did they get 2,000 photos per second?
That’s amazing. Look out Google!
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A Concerned Citizen
Posted October 18th, 2009Wow … so much hardware being utilized for so much banality and narcissism. I hope Facebook goes out of business VERY soon.
OMFG…..2000 photos per second…..
Amazing Facebook team.. I still learning and understanding about how datacenter work..
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