Came across an interesting video today from Facebook. It is apparently fairly common for small teams, 3-5 people, to work together to create a product. In this case, the “photos” application.
According to the video, photos has become much more popular than expects. To give you some idea of how popular, take a look at these statistics.
- 2,000 photo uploads per second
- 40,000,000 uploads per day
- 1,000,000,000 uploads per month (a billion!)
Now that’s a lot of data. Since they store multiple sizes of the original images, they have about 40 billion, yes billion images stored as of the video shoot.
These images are stored in a vast raised floor data center that looks to be cram packed with racks of 1U servers and storage units. For those network/data center folks….look at the cable management. We should all strive for that level of cleanliness. 
The user to developer ratio is something along the lines of 1,000,000 : 1. Haha. Now that’s a user base.
Neat stuff. Have a great weekend.
Blessings to you and yours.
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I like the little slideshow thingee at the top of your site, Tom.
And sorry, the talk of SSWUG leaves me clueless.
Hehe…came with the theme and just a little tweaking on my end from http://web2feel.com/
SSWUG – SQL Server Worldwide Users Group. Just one of those DBA things.
Wish I knew a DBA. haha