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The Amazon EC2 outage left blood in the water, but now it’s time to learn from it
It has probably escaped no one that Amazon had several days of serious issues with its cloud hosting service last week, which took a large number of sites either fully or partly offline, including sites like Reddit, Foursquare and Quora. To say that this incident received a massive amount of media attention would be an understatement.
Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site
At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users . This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that