Monday, April 06, 2009

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 million photos uploaded to the site each month (500 GB per day!)"

Facebook's photo storage rewrite briefly describes the old and new architectures.

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