facebook, skype, myspace etc... all have millions and millions of users, does anyone know what their architecture looks like. Is it distributed on different nodes or do they use massive clusters?
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Memcached is used by a lot of sites with a lot of users, including Facebook. You can find lots of blogs that discuss the architecture of various high traffic Web sites. A long time ago I listened to this Arcast which I thought was quite interesting (if you do ASP.NET with SQL Server)
RichardOD
2009-06-15 08:52:20
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Facebook uses Hadoop/Hive and Erlang among other things (see http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=9445547199)
Pierre
2009-06-15 08:56:40
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Check below link to read how bigger applications like Amason, eBay, Flickr, Google etc. lives with high traffic.
http://highscalability.com/links/weblink/24
Interesting website for architects.
(I blogged about this earlier after a research for a BIG project - http://blog.ninethsense.com/high-scalability-how-big-applications-works/)
NinethSense
2009-06-15 09:00:41
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Hey this may not directly answer your question. Interesting to watch nonetheless. See facebook software stack.
mhd
2009-06-19 06:56:09