25 April 2008

21:07

“Facebook’s Insatiable Hunger for Hardware”

The company is running around 10,000 servers. […] Of the 10,000 servers, 1,800 are from MySQL and around 805 of them are memcached servers.

I’m surprised they have more MySQL than memcached servers — but I suppose it makes sense because some aspects of Facebook are rather write-heavy. Wonder if the new chat system is powered by MySQL.