“Introducing AWS Snowmobile: Exabyte-Scale Data Transport - yes. That is a truck! #AWS #reInvent ” “Introducing AWS Snowmobile: Exabyte-Scale Data Transport - yes. That is a truck! #AWS #reInvent ” “Introducing AWS Snowmobile: Exabyte-Scale Data Transport - yes. That is a truck! #AWS #reInvent ”

Introducing AWS Snowmobile: Exabyte-Scale Data Transport - yes. That is a truck! #AWS #reInvent

(via AWS re:Invent on Twitter: “Introducing AWS Snowmobile: Exabyte-Scale Data Transport - yes. That is a truck! #AWS #reInvent https://t.co/r9rwZJ8zuQ”)

  1. Date Posted Icon 5th December 2016
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    3. Tags Icon #Exabyte#data#storage#transport#aws#amazon#stack#who owns the stack#bigdata#container
An analysis of Facebook photo caching Every day people upload more than 350 million photos to Facebook as of December 2012 and view many more in their News Feeds and on their friends’ Timelines. Facebook stores these photos on Haystackmachines that...

An analysis of Facebook photo caching

Every day people upload more than 350 million photos to Facebook as of December 2012 and view many more in their News Feeds and on their friends’ Timelines. Facebook stores these photos on Haystackmachines that are optimized to store photos. But there is also a deep and distributed photo-serving stack with many layers of caches that delivers photos to people so they can view them.

We recently published an academic study of this stack in SOSP. In this post, we describe the stack and then cover four of our many findings:

 

From the Facebook engineering blog // JAY

  1. Date Posted Icon 6th May 2014
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    3. Tags Icon #facebook#stack#storage#data centers#infrastructure#photo