Jeff Rothschild, Vice President of Technology at Facebook gave a great presentation at UC San Diego on "High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook". The presentation’s abstract:
Facebook has grown into one of the largest...
Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that process vast amounts of data), Yahoo being the first. It is also the creator of Hive, a data warehouse infrastructure...
Facebook is releasing a Javascript library allowing Facebook applications to be embedded in any web-site - not just inside Facebook. This small step brings Facebook closer towards becoming a true web operating system - a platform for any application that...
I just got this great video (via Facebook): Technorati Tags: Facebook , Humor
Google just announced that MySpace and Six Apart will join its OpenSocial initiative together with Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. OpenSocial is an open interchange that allows users to take their social graph...
I just refuse to add all these idiotic Facebook apps...