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.
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.
It takes a lot of infrastructure to support 300 million users. Here's a look at how Facebook does it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Activity on Facebook Chat has reached 1 billion messages per day, the company said on its Facebook Engineering blog.