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- Facebook's photo storage rewrite
This week Facebook will complete its roll-out of a new photo storage system designed to reduce the social network s reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai . The new large blob storage system, named Haystack , is a custom-built file system solution for the over 850 millio… more
Thu Apr 30 08:36pm PDT
- Google search referer changes
Google will roll out a change to its search results pages later this week designed to better capture outbound clicks. Google search result pages will link to a gateway URL before delivering the visitor to his final destination. These gateway URL s will replace search result URL s exposed via the Re… more
Tue Apr 14 05:48pm PDT
- Facebook's growing infrastructure spend
On Thursday BusinessWeek reported Facebook is seeking new financing for its data center operation growth in 2009 . Facebook continues to add new members and their associated content at an extremely fast pace, with most new growth coming from international markets. Facebook needs to expand its abili… more
Tue Mar 31 10:10pm PDT
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Source: Niall Kennedy's Weblog
