On distributed systems broadly defined and other curiosities. The opinions on this site are my own. I had summarized/discussed a couple papers (Haystack, Memcache caching) about Facebook's architecture before. Facebook uses simple architecture that gets things done. Papers from Facebook are refreshingly simple, and I like reading these papers. Two more Facebook papers appeared recently, and I brie
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