Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and others have established Open Networking Foundation, an industry group that seeks to push the radical new Open Flow technology and the idea behind it, Software Defined Networking (SDN) in new directions. This push could have major ramifications for incumbent gearmakers. Read More »
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If Facebook VP of technical operations Jonathan Heiliger were a superhero, his name would be “Scaler-man.” Today Facebook has some 500 million users, twice as many as last July. But even so, Heiliger says the company should have planned better for the challenges it faces now. Read More »
Facebook’s Jonathan Heiliger and two of his colleagues, Marco Baray and Jason Tyler, yesterday shared some details with me as to how exactly Facebook benchmarks server performance — and how that’s helped them squeeze the most out of their machines. Read More »
Om sat down this afternoon with Facebook Technical Operations VP Jonathan Heiliger to talk about the social network’s infrastructure and started out by asking how the company managed to withstand the heavy user traffic during its username product launch. Heiliger said that Facebook had originally planned… Read More »
Dell & Facebook are cooking up a new cloud computing dish. It is bad news for Rackable. Details next week. Read More »
