On the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new venture centered around the iPhone. The process of building our app has been quite an adventure and we’ve experimented with several technologies that were new to us before reaching our current technology...
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...