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Facebook Open Sources its Server Software

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Facebook has decided to share some details about its system architecture and make public the source code that powers it. In a note posted by one of the company’s engineers, Facebook describes how it went about choosing its technology stack and ultimately arrived at the decision to build its own server – called Scribe – to make sure Facebook could scale to hundreds of millions of users.

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Author: Lincoln on October 25th, 2008

Category: Programming

Tags: facebook, open source

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