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Re:Facebook's photo storage rewrite by Andys on Monday April 06, 2009 @07:14AM (#548674)
At the centre of this redesign is the need to save money.

Facebook doesn't need to run on the same hardware (NetApp) as banks and telcos. In this type of application, scaling up is done cheapest with custom software on commodity hardware.

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Re:Facebook's photo storage rewrite by jrockway on Monday April 06, 2009 @10:37AM (#548897)
Additionally, the custom software is pretty straightforward. It's certainly simpler than the rest of their app.
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