Facebook’s photo storage architecture
Facebook built Haystack, an object storage system designed for storing photos on a large scale. The platform stores over 260 billion images which amounts to over 20 petabytes of data. One billion new photos are uploaded each week which is approx—60 terabytes of data. At...
Facebook Real-time Chat Architecture Scaling With Over Multi-Billion Messages Daily
This is my second write-up on Facebook architecture. In the first, I covered the databases leveraged by Facebook. In this write-up, I will talk about the real-time chat architecture of Facebook which scales with over multi-billion messages sent every single day. Let’s jump right into...
Facebook database [Updated] – A thorough insight into the databases used @Facebook
This write-up is a comprehensive insight into the persistence layer of Facebook and the first of the distributed systems write-ups on this blog. It takes a deep dive into questions like what database does Facebook use? Is it a NoSQL or a SQL DB? Is it...
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