How does Facebook handle the insane variety
of details that one billion dollars dollars customers add into the service
nearly every day? Wired explains how the company manages and investigates the
amazing variety of details using custom-built programs like Prism and Scuba
diving. Facebook has the biggest Hadoop team — a number of web
web servers connected using Hadoop's open-source application — with more than
4,000 machines containing over 100 petabytes of details. Even more amazing, it
isn't Facebook's only team. The problem of managing the consistently swelling
system needs some of the biggest technology and managing ideas to fix, but as
databases management and storage systems manager Santosh Janardhan told Wired, "if
you're a technical guy, this is like Candies Land."
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