A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm

comment or post is live within seconds. Multiply that across 500 million (and counting) users and the power of the data center becomes awesome indeed.
Martin Schoeller for TIME

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The servers process updates to Facebook users' pages as quickly as possible, so that a comment or post is live within seconds. Multiply that across 550 million (and counting) users and the power of the data center becomes awesome indeed.

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