Saturday, July 16, 2011

Facebook: An Example Canonical Architecture for Scaling Billions of Messages

What should the architecture of your scalable, real-time, highly available service look like? There are as many options as there are developers, but if you are looking for a general template, this architecture asdescribed byPrashant Malik, Facebook's lead for the Messages back end team, inScaling the Messages Application Back End, is a very good example to consider. Although Messages is tasked with handling 135+ billion messages a month, from email, IM, SMS, text messages, and Facebook messages, you may think ...

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