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Facebook: Science and the Social Graph
Presented by
Aditya Agarwal
on
Mar 25, 2009
Length 01:01:43
- Sections
- Enterprise Architecture
- Topics
- Enterprise Application Blocks ,
- Architecture
- Tags
- Facebook ,
- QCon ,
- PHP ,
- Memcache ,
- MySQL ,
- LAMP ,
- QCon San Francisco 2008
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Summary
In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.
Bio
Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he helps manage the engineering team and oversees new product design and architecture. He works on Search, Advertising and News Feed. He was one of the co-authors of Thrift, a popular open-source RPC framework.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.
Bio
Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he helps manage the engineering team and oversees new product design and architecture. He works on Search, Advertising and News Feed. He was one of the co-authors of Thrift, a popular open-source RPC framework.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
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Brian Wood
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hmm.
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Ivan Lazarte
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Max Indelicato
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Dan Creswell
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Nice presentation
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benny rio
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Back to the future
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Adrien Delorme
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Hi,
can I download the presentation somewhere?
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@Steve: Here it is: www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/Facebook-S... (112 MB)
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Or you can install Real Player. It will allow you to download all the slides in a bunch
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telling me php doesn't scale is like telling me java supports oo programming. five minutes of looking at that language told me that. the db stuff was slightly more interesting - more evidence as to the death of the traditional rdbms but in the end not that surprising. anything of facebooks scale can't support traditional clustering and has to drop to partitioning of some kind.
their platform sounds like a mess of a variety of languages. "right language for the task" sounds to me like a euphemism for "i can't really control my vastly more experienced developers" -
"their platform sounds like a mess of a variety of languages. "right language for the task" sounds to me like a euphemism for "i can't really control my vastly more experienced developers""
This sounds to me like the a critique by someone who is afraid to move beyond their comfort zone. -
"their platform sounds like a mess of a variety of languages. "right language for the task" sounds to me like a euphemism for "i can't really control my vastly more experienced developers""
This sounds to me like the a critique by someone who is afraid to move beyond their comfort zone.
Dunno about that but would note that Amazon also use a variety of languages and it's encouraged - Vogels says:
"You build a small team. You give them this problem. And at Amazon, they're allowed to solve that problem in any way they see fit, as long as it is through this hardened API. They can pick the tools they want. They can do any design methodology they want as long as they deliver the actual functionality that they've been tasked with......We have some requirements: that services has to be monitorable, that they have to be tractable in all sorts of different ways. But in essence, operation is all up to the service owners themselves. This allows for a large-let's say controlled chaos-which actually works very well because everybody's responsible for their own services." -
Hi Dinh,
Your link goes to one particular slide (6.swf). I can get to the others by editing the url, but is the a starting page, or a way to download all of the slides at once?
Thanks for posting this presentation.
Brian -
seems like implementing SOA at lower level, great idea
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"[...]the other reason we use php apart from the fact that we started of on it[...]"
With this phrase I just would like to ask, what would you use if you could go back to the very beginning of Facebook with the nowadays advances ?
Java, Php, Ruby, Python etc. ?
Rails, Zend, Symfony, your framework, reinventing the wheel etc. ?
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