How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos 154
David Gobaud writes "Jason Sobel, the manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, gave an interesting presentation titled Needle in a Haystack:
Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos at Stanford for the Stanford ACM. Jason explains how Facebook efficiently stores ~6.5 billion images, in 4 or 5 sizes each, totaling ~30 billion files, and a total of 540 TB and serving 475,000 images per second at peak. The presentation is now online here in the form of a Flowgram."
Photos? You mean people use FB for photos too? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought it was created just so that you could have all your spam and silly forwards in one place.
I dunno. (Score:5, Funny)
But seeing as how this just got posted and already it's Slashdotted, I'll bet it's not the same way Flowgram stores its presentations.
How X Stores Billions of Photos (Score:5, Funny)
he has a premium acct... (Score:5, Funny)
at Flickr
FLASH?! (Score:4, Funny)
"You either have javascript turned off or you have an older version of Adobe Flash."
That was an informative article but I didn't see anything about Facebook. At least there weren't ads and they kept it to one page!
Slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
Does anyone see the irony in Flowgram's demonstration?
Flowgram Guy 1: "OK, this is how Facebook stores billions of photos and serves thousands of them each second"
Flowgram Guy 2: "Cool, maybe we should implement that technology"
Flowgram Guy 1: "Why? It's not as if we're ever going to have our servers swamped with thousands of requests..."
The peak is a paltry 0.45e6/s? (Score:4, Funny)
Let's all go look at pictures on fb from 12 noon EST to 12:05 EST. That ought to show them...
I 3 Myspace hunni!
Cheers!
Flowgram slashdotted? (Score:1, Funny)
Flowgram serving 475000 /. users flawlessly , now that would be impressing.
Re:Photos? You mean people use FB for photos too? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought it was created just so that you could have all your spam and silly forwards in one place.
Then proceed to futher prove the GP post by saying:
The best thing I can compare it to is AOL
Looks like beta.flowgram.com should be (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slashdotted (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I dunno. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I dunno. (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, companies in the UK reported record productivity this afternoon.
Re:FLASH?! (Score:2, Funny)
Next paper (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Photos? You mean people use FB for photos too? (Score:1, Funny)
Fortune 500 companies could probably learn a thing or two...
Re:Photos? You mean people use FB for photos too? (Score:4, Funny)
Me too!
Not everyone prides themselves on using a 'cool' isp.
How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Photos? You mean people use FB for photos too? (Score:3, Funny)
Facebook is where you spam your friends with pointless messages about how you've hurled a squirrel at them.
Re:Photos? You mean people use FB for photos too? (Score:2, Funny)
I totally agree with you about how having friends on facebook is highly offensive and joining it will lead to identity theft and involuntary permanent incarceration in guantanamo bay. My neighbour tried to give facebook fake details, and mark zuckerberg showed up and stabbed him in the eye.