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Facebook’s Tech Chief: How We Built It and Where We’re Going

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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The Challenges of Distributing a Personalized Feed to Millions of Users

First social network i used was six degrees. Six degrees dot com out of new york in 19 98. In a wint the sit was up to about 20 thousand users. It might take two or three minutes for every page to load, and there wasn't even a news feed. None of these things were built to serve a dynamic grap so that as i'm loading the page or looking at a post, and you co on it or you like it, we've got to up date that immediately and up date the like count,. You know, millions of likes or whatever may happen. That required this incredible creation of a huge dack of technical systems  to sort of serve that

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