Facebook Built Most Of Timeline In Six Months
Facebook's new timeline profile took about six months to build, from the initial infrastructure-review meeting to successfully turning on the 100 percent back-end load test.
Facebook’s new timeline profile took about six months to build, from the initial infrastructure-review meeting to successfully turning on the 100 percent back-end load test.
Infrastructure Engineer Ryan Mack explained how those six months went in a post on the social network. Here are some of the highlights:
- Timeline was built on four core Facebook technologies:
- MySQL and InnoDB storage and replication;
- Multifeed, which already powers the news feed was used for ranking;
- Thrift communications ; and
- Memcached caching.
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