Poke that Facebook code
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Facebook likes to push the mantra that it is making the world a more open and connected place through the medium of dance. Sorry, through the medium of social networking I mean. It also likes to let slip every now and then that the software it uses to build the site and service is pretty much all open source stuff.
Now Facebook has taken that final step into the lovey dovey world of openness and is releasing that code which it has developed into the wild, so that the open source community can do with it what it will. Well, apart from producing a Facebook clone one assumes.
The process gets under way immediately as Facebook releases the Scribe cold. This critical piece of infrastructure is used to collect large amounts of data from a large number of servers, data which is then used to do stuff like track database memory consumption when delivering relationship stories directly into the News Feed. Or, as Facebook puts it “Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine.”
Facebook ended up building its own system because all the open source, and proprietary ones for that matter, which it tried to perform the same task just could not cope with the massive amounts of data being generated by Facebook members. Massive as in tens of billions of pieces of information being moved around every single day.
The Scribe source can be found here.
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