New Technology Behind 20 Billion Daily Facebook Messages

The social network's new messaging service will encompass more than 20 additional infrastructure services.

Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave, you know Facebook announced a social inbox today, promising a real-time conversation that combines the messaging communications already available on the social network with texting, instant messaging, email and chat. The social network’s new service will encompass more than 20 additional infrastructure services.

Now you can see why the company needed to buy its own data center. Even before today’s announcement, the magnitude of data that Facebook has been handling has required continually expanding infrastructure.

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