Pingdom.com created a nice article last month, it took a look at some of the software and techniques that used by Facebook to keep its site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users. At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving [...]

Facebook released a kernel module called Flashcache this wednesday, which is used to speed up MySQL by caching data in faster media like SSD disks.  It’s only tested for kernel versions 2.6.18 and 2.6.20.

This week Facebook should have completed its new photo storage system which is designed to reduce the social network’s reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai. The new large blob storage system, named Haystack, is a custom-built file system solution for the over 850 [...]