Jun 10, 2009 · When we started at Facebook in 2007 all of the data processing infrastructure was built around a data warehouse built using a commercial RDBMS. The data that we were …

Jun 25, 2013 · In 2007, a few Facebook engineers set out to define new data storage abstractions that would fit the needs of all but the most demanding features of the site while hiding most of …

May 13, 2008 · Since going open source a year ago (we had the gall to release it on April Fool’s Day, 2007), the Thrift project has steadily grown and improved (with multiple iterations on the …

May 23, 2012 · At my first hackathon in 2007, about 20 people showed up. At our most recent hack, last Thursday night, more than 500 employees came together to hack on apps for non …

Feb 20, 2014 · After using Thrift for a year internally, we open-sourced it in 2007. Since then, as we continued to gain experience running Thrift infrastructure inside Facebook, we found two …

Mar 16, 2010 · In July 2007 we explained the complexities of serving one of the largest user bases in the world and the reasons for building our own in-house search service. Serving more …

Aug 31, 2017 · This system scaled well, starting with a handful of engineers in 2007 to thousands today. The good news is that as we added more engineers, we got more done — the rate of …

Apr 10, 2014 · Visit the post for more.At Facebook, we have unique storage scalability challenges when it comes to our data warehouse. Our warehouse stores upwards of 300 PB of Hive data, …

Apr 13, 2015 · Look at how Internet delivery and webpage size have changed between 2007 and today. In 2007, we had 2.5Mbps cable modems (at home), and the Yahoo homepage weighed …

May 16, 2011 · As the site grew, we added a second region of data centers in Virginia in 2007, and this year, we launched our third region in Prineville, Oregon. Our new facility in Prineville …