This is one of the more interesting videos I’ve seen lately. It’s a short 2 minute 30 second clip that shows the inside of the Facebook datacenter but more importantly talks about the tasks they’re up against like having to store 2,000 photos a second or 40 billion a month. All that with a handful of engineers. It’s pretty incredible actually. Enjoy the video.
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April 20th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Very interesting video. Amazing that Facebook is only 900 people.. I would imagine that Google had that same sort of feel in it's early days. That very real sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:02 am
The 900 people part really shocked me as well. I can't even believe that. I remember when VMware was only 900 people however we weren't storing a million photos every day. Our customers might have been doing that come to think of it.
April 24th, 2009 at 7:59 am
amazing video. Thank you Mike.
April 24th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
amazing video. Thank you Mike.