As many of you know, Facebook is the #1 photo site on the internet. With the use of Akamai’s CDN(content delivery networks), caching and other techniques, Facebook is able to seamlessly serve up millions of photos.

Jason Sobel, manager of infrastructure engineering from Facebook gave a presentation at Stanford which can be seen here:

http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#2qi3k8eicrfgkv

We thought it’d be interesting for the world to gain some insight into how difficult it can be, to provide a smooth browsing experience for users, especially with the inherent limitations of many of the tools used to build the facebook infrastructure.

We were hired by Esface to redesign their blog and port it from blogger to WordPress. The Esface team wanted an easy way for their followers to not only keep up on news, but also display their newest t shirt designs that linked directly to their store.

In addition to reskinning their blog, Digitalvaliance was responsible for installing a flash gallery within a very mission critical turn-around time. Digitalvaliance is in the process of designing Esface’s subsidiary companies, Agile and E Athletics. Stay tuned to see the outcome of these creative missions.