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.

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