Oct
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Facebook Now Running Over 30,000 Servers

- Facebook is now running somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 servers.
- The company is also collecting a whopping 25 terabytes of log data per day, which is supposedly “the equivalent of about 1,000 times the volume of mail delivered daily by the U.S. Postal Service”.
- The company now has about 230 engineers on staff out of the more than 900 employees.
- Over 600,000 photos are served each second. (read this one three times please)
(via Etienne)