• Facebook's Spooktacular Scaling for Halloween

    October 30th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Halloween has become the Super Bowl for online photo storage, and one of the busiest days of the year for Facebook, which sees daily spikes of more than double its normal photo uploads. Read More

  • Facebook’s Spooktacular Scaling for Halloween

    October 30th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Halloween has become the Super Bowl for online photo storage, and one of the busiest days of the year for Facebook, which sees daily spikes of more than double its normal photo uploads. Read More

  • Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers

    October 13th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Facebook now has about 30,000 servers supporting its operations, hosts 80 billion photos, and serves up more than 600,000 photos to its users every second. Read More

  • Facebook, Google Ready for Faster Ethernet

    September 25th, 2009 : John Rath

    Engineers from Facebook and Google made the case for faster Ethernet networks - definitely 100-Gigabit Ethernet, and perhaps even Terabit Ethernet - at an Ethernet Alliance seminar last week. Read More

  • How Facebook Serves Up 300 Million Users

    September 16th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    It takes a lot of infrastructure to support 300 million users. Here's a look at how Facebook does it. Read More

  • Facebook Makes Big Investment in Data Centers

    September 14th, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Facebook has made a major commitment to its future infrastructure, locking down a large chunk of data center in northern Virginia that will provide space for thousands of additional servers from 2011 forward. Read More

  • Just In Case: Facebook's "Nuclear Option"

    July 2nd, 2009 : Rich Miller

    The recent launch of Facebook usernames was a "unique in its potential for trouble" and led the social network to prepare "nuclear options" involving turning off popular features to keep the site online. Read More

  • Just In Case: Facebook’s “Nuclear Option”

    July 2nd, 2009 : Rich Miller

    The recent launch of Facebook usernames was a "unique in its potential for trouble" and led the social network to prepare "nuclear options" involving turning off popular features to keep the site online. Read More

  • Facebook: Managing Epic Growth in Real-Time

    June 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller

    Facebook has managed epic growth by cultivating a culture of collaboration between engineering and operations, two groups that often are in conflict, according to VP of technical operations Jonathan Heiliger. Read More

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