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Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook

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Summary

Dhruba Borthakur discusses the different types of data used by Facebook and how they are stored, including graph data, semi-OLTP data, immutable data for pictures, and Hadoop/Hive for analytics.

Bio

Dhruba Borthakur is an engineer in the Database Engineering Team at Facebook. He has been one of the early committers for the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System. He has been associated with Hadoop since its infancy while working for Yahoo. Dhruba is a contributor to the open source Apache HBase project. Dhruba's current focus is to evaluate alternative SSD-based database technologies.

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Cloud Tech is an ops conference for ops people, Saturday, October 6th, from 9am to 6pm. Come join us at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA for a full 8 hours of learning directly from great minds sharing their secrets!

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Dec 17, 2012

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  • Where are the slides?

    by Graham Lea,

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      • Where are the slides?

        by Graham Lea,

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        Looks like a great presentation.... but I can't watch it on iPad because there's no slide download. Will it be added soon?

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        Then reach for a machine. The beauty of this presentation is lost to someone like you because you can't figure this shit out and need to comment on here to find a solution.

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