How Facebook stores its billions of photos

Re:How Facebook stores its billions of photos by viksit on Thursday April 30, 2009 @08:13PM (#587808)

@thehigherlife - I was thinking about the same thing recently (an announcement about FB becoming the biggest photo app on the planet). I found two great sources of information on this..

- http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture

Very deep analysis of Flickr's arch from a couple of years ago - including a link to a presentation to Cal Henderson's slides. I'm surprised he got canned from Y! yesterday though!

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Re:How Facebook stores its billions of photos by mattyb on Thursday April 30, 2009 @09:06PM (#587862)

Not to be wooden, but if you reply to someone's comment, I don't think there's a need to state @[username].

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Re:How Facebook stores its billions of photos by furburger on Thursday April 30, 2009 @11:18PM (#588029)

i don't know anything about cal's departure, but i can say that any large co like yahoo, google, msft, apple etc is more or less impervious against the loss of one or a few technical individuals. his departure may have symbolic value but the machine that is chugging there will keep chugging, for better or for worse

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Re:How Facebook stores its billions of photos by jamie on Friday May 01, 2009 @12:01AM (#588061)

Don't confuse continuing to operate with continuing to innovate.

A few technical individuals can move the needle more than you'd imagine, even at a big co.

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