Comments on: Exploring the Software Behind Facebook, the World’s Largest Social Media Site https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/ Website Performance and Availability Monitoring | Pingdom Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Hassan Ishaq https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6375 Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:16:11 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6375 Such a nice article.
Thank you!

]]> By: Philip https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6369 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:32:31 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6369 @kittu:

you heard wrong

]]> By: kittu https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6367 Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:42:37 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6367 i heard salesforce is the main software making fb run

]]> By: Nitin Mohan Sharma https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6365 Tue, 03 May 2016 19:04:32 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6365 Facebook is using each service efficiently on the internet as described in this article all the list of programming languages, server languages, accelerator for http etc. Php is good for web development but to make their work easy they have php to c++ compiler its such a awesome and complex at the same time

]]> By: beat79 https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6363 Fri, 25 Mar 2016 21:02:37 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6363 In reply to lzone.

Advertising, of course.

]]> By: Chigor https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6361 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:12:23 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6361 In reply to Ejaz.

Yeah, exactly

]]> By: Narasinga https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6359 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:31:16 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6359 Perfect collection and nicely interpreted. I am wondering if there is any information that can be shared that what are the different sources of revenue generation for facebook.

]]> By: YugShende https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6357 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:03:40 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6357 Can we get an update on this article ? Revised statistics , software additions etc .?

]]> By: CharlieGilichibi https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6355 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:57:57 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6355 Facebook never envisioned it could scale to its current mammoth size. Having started off with PhP was a good choice as it is an open script acting like glue to HTML front end and C++ application logic back ends. With the growth in photos and videos and monetisation growth rate not as fast, the business model might not be as future proof as it should be. That is to say Facebook is not making money fast enough compared to its growth content accummulation rate. eMarkerter research indicated that Facebook revenue peaked (in percentage terms) in 2011 and is now declining. So not only is Facebook facing technological challenges, but shareholder value creation challenges as well. The click-through-rate (CTR) on Facebook is 0.05% while on Google it is 0.4% (comScore, 2011). 

]]> By: Alfieman https://www.pingdom.com/blog/the-software-behind-facebook/#comment-6353 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:01:20 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=6723#comment-6353 Massive numbers. I have worked with 1000 servers and a 700Terrabite SAN environment. Doesn’t scale anywhere near. I am particularly impressed with the software launch and update principle. Very robust and secure. Top marks Facebook.

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