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How Facebook manage All Their Data


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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