Facebook Using Hadoop for Large Scale Internal Analytics
Facebook’s engineering team has posted some details on the tools it’s using to analyze the huge data sets it collects. One of the main tools it uses is Hadoop, an open source project that makes it easier to analyze vast amounts of data.
Some interesting tidbits from the post:
- Some of these early projects have matured into publicly released features (like the Facebook Lexicon) or are being used in the background to improve user experience on Facebook (by improving the relevance of search results, for example).
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