FaceBook has 30,000 servers and serves 600,000 images per second!
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
How many servers does Facebook have?
30,000 servers! How?
Before 18 Months back Facebook had about 10,000 servers but in those 18 months, the company has seen lot of growth an had borrowed a sum of $100 million which was probably for setting up 20,000 servers.
600,000 Images served every second!
Facebook, has 300 Million Active users which have [...]
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In 1989, a 16-year old Sachin Tendulkar made his debut for India against Pakistan, their fiercest rivals. He came armed with an already formidable reputation and began the journey that scaled a summit that a few would imagine was possible.
Today he completes 20 years of international cricket. Recrod of 29,951 runs in 595 Tests and [...]
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LinkedIn, Twitter enable users to cross-post their status messages to both networks
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
Micro-blogging site Twitter has partnered with professional networking site LinkedIn to enable users of both services to sync their status updates. The move will make it possible for a Twitter user to simultaneously post his updates on LinkedIn while LinkedIn users will be able to post their status messages on their Twitter profile. This feature [...]
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This week Rasmus announced, via tweet, that he quit. I guess, this had to happen as a aftermath of Yahoo announcing the outsourcing of it’s search techology to Microsoft.
The PHP founder is just one of the many high-profile engineers and developers that have left Yahoo recently. Lerdorf says he’s “Probably crazy to leave the best [...]
