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  • what are the web technologies used by facebook?

    Manish Goyal

    Manish Goyal

    @manish-r2Hoep
    Updated: Apr 24, 2011
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    Guys anyone having any idea what are the vairous web technologies used by facebook

    the way as we click ,like it

    Within sec it automatically updates the database ,that you like a particular link

    Is this all possible because of ajax or something else ?
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  • eternalthinker

    Member • Apr 24, 2011

    The real-time database updates should be all the magic of ajax.

    For things like chat, real-time notifications etc, they should be using comet programming too.
    It's a way to implement data sending from server side, instead of polling the server frequently. Sometimes called as BOSH.
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  • Aditya Joshi

    Member • Apr 24, 2011

    Their development line is primarily based on LAMP - ie, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/PERL. AJAX, as you say, gives it a better front end appearance like showing your updates real time. They have vast clusters of servers carrying out the background tasks. There are C++ and JAVA based systems for background processing, feed ranking etc.
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Apr 24, 2011

    Facebook owns and operates their own data centers and has hundreds of experts in PHP, Server Administrations etc. I remember watching their CTO's talk. He mentioned that Facebook engineers have developed customizations in core PHP to make it more efficient and faster. But the exact specifications of these changes have not been revealed.
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  • crashoverride

    Member • Apr 25, 2011

    Check out the link I am attaching.
    Zacky has has taken efforts to declare how he gave birth to his baby

    All the technologies used are noted in the page.

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