Facebook has build custom web-app testing framework to test server performance. Read it, especially the section on why “standard” SPECxxx benchmarks are not a good measure of anything. Also, ready about performance-per-watt, as this is really import…
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Notes about facebook internal PM process (release, builds, QA, deployments, management, etc)
… Interesting that they manage to do their work like a small startup team, even thought they are #1 site on the Net and have ~ 2K employees.
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article about facebook infrastructure, the 3rd page contains links to different videos and presentations by facebook engineers
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A great presentation [from google] about how people interact socially in the real life and how current social networks represent them. (Needs about 30 min to read)
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also see http://dormando.livejournal.com/521163.html Describing some problems with performance/scalability you may have if you partition/shard your data by hash. ( that’s what memcached does.) You may hit the cpu bound limit from the amount of requ…
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facebook uses mysql, I didn’t know
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