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How Facebook Scales Big Data Systems
Jeff Johnson introduces Apollo, a hierarchical NoSQL data system meant to deal with Facebook's distributed storage needs.
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Real-Time Systems at Twitter
Brian Degenhardt discusses lessons that Twitter learned managing a high rate of change and complexity, and how those can be applied anywhere.
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The Haxl Project at Facebook
Simon Marlow describes a concurrency-based system built with Haskell that allows front-end programmers to write business logic to access all the back-end services in a concise and consistent way.
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PHP, Seriously!
Keith Adams examines the strengths that made PHP a dominant language in its niche, highlighting Facebook's attempts at remedying its inconsistencies and misfeatures while maintaining its strengths.
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Scaling Engineering Culture at Twitter
Raffi Krikorian discusses the software engineering challenges met re-architecting Twitter and the cultural change impact that came with it.
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The Facebook Mobile Release Process
Christian Legnitto offers insight in some of the tools and processes used by Facebook for pushing new updates to their mobile apps.
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Growing from the Few to the Many: Scaling the Operations Organization at Facebook
Pedro Canahuati describes how Facebook's operations maintains their infrastructure, including challenges faced and lessons learned: prioritizing calls, managing technical debt, incident management.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tuning
Keith Adams shares HHVM insights showing how a system can become very performant if it is well tuned.
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Taking PHP Seriously
Keith Adams outlines PHP's strengths and Facebook's attempts at remedying the inconsistencies and misfeatures in the core language.
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Implementing a DSL for Social Modeling: an Embedded Approach Using Scala
Juan Manuel and Jesús López González share their experience gathered over five years designing and implementing Speech, a DSL for programming social processes.
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Decomposing Twitter: Adventures in Service-Oriented Architecture
Jeremy Cloud discusses SOA at Twitter, approaches taken for maintaining high levels of concurrency, and briefly touches on some functional design patterns used to manage code complexity.
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Facebook Messages: Backup & Replication Systems on HBase
Nicolas Spiegelberg discusses Facebook Messages built on top of HBase, the systems involved and the scaling challenges for handling 500TB of new data per month.