Tuesday
Jun222010
Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 8:20AM Peter Alguacil at Pingdom wrote a HighScalability worthy article on Facebook's architecture: Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site. It covers the challenges Facebook faces, the software Facebook uses, and the techniques Facebook uses to keep on scaling. Definitely worth a look.
Reader Comments (3)
If
1 person brain + 1 Server --> Can create a site that server up to 15k users a day
Then
300 person brain + 10 k Servers --> Can serve 400 mil users
So
What is so great about it ?
The great thing about it is that they don't have a single person with Maths ability like you in their total 300 people. It's funny to hear your simplification of Scalability problem into more-people-hiring problem :).
Perhaps you should study what is Tipping Point. In fact the condition reverses after a certain period, say science.