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Re:Ask HN: What language(s) is Facebook written in? by zalew on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @11:21PM (#1473780)
and MySQL http://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7899307130

More interesting are how they use technologies rather than only which one, f.ex this: http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/02/facebook-makes-their-web-...

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Re:Ask HN: What language(s) is Facebook written in? by badave on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @02:21AM (#1474056)
Don't forget about Cassandra, which they developed just for scalability issues that they were having, and is now used at Digg and other sites (I think reddit uses it for something as well now) http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=24413138919
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