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HBase @ Facebook

Kannan Muthukkaruppan overviews HBase, explaining what Facebook Messages is and why they chose HBase to implement it, their contribution to HBase, and what they plan to use it for in the future.

Kannan Muthukkaruppan
on Sep 29, 2011

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01:08:08
Evolution of Code Design at Facebook

Nick Schrock presents how Facebook’s code evolved over time, explaining some new constructs – fbobjects, Preparables, Ents - introduced to address the complexities of a large social graph.

Nick Schrock
on Apr 28, 2011

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01:00:41
Scaling the Social Graph: Infrastructure at Facebook

Jason Sobel presents the evolution of Facebook’s infrastructure over time, from the original LAMP stack to the present multi-datacenter configuration, the challenges faced and plans for the future.

Jason Sobel
on Apr 05, 2011

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Scale at Facebook

Beside presenting the overall Facebook architecture and scaling solutions used, Aditya Agarwal talks about the iterative process of constantly improving the site, making sure to avoid over-engineering

Aditya Agarwal
on May 28, 2010

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01:01:30
Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale

Robert Johnson talks about: the need to prepare for horizontal scalability, very short release cycles associated with a streamlined deploying process, and making the entire process faster every day.

Robert Johnson
on May 24, 2010

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01:00:44
Gluing together the web via the Facebook Platform

At Gluecon 2009, Josh Elman discussed the Facebook platform and how it supports the creation of social networks, including the "social stack:" identity, social graph, and sharing.

Josh Elman
on Jun 05, 2009

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Facebook: Science and the Social Graph

Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: PHP, MySQL, Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.

Aditya Agarwal
on Mar 25, 2009

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