Facebook's Servers Nearly Double In Throughput
Facebook's production servers have nearly doubled in throughput since the beginning of 2010, when the company launched and simultaneously open sourced its home-grown application called HipHop for PHP.
Facebook’s production servers have nearly doubled in throughput since the beginning of 2010, when the company first launched its home-grown application called HipHop for PHP.
This open-source application reduces the amount of processing power used by production servers by compressing code.
Specifically, HipHop transforms PHP source code into highly optimized C++, and then compiles it with g++ to build binary files.
This reduces server usage by about half — or double throughput improvement, put in another way.
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