Facebook’s photo storage rewriteThis week Facebook will complete its roll-out of a new photo storage system designed to reduce the social network’s reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai. The new large blob storage system, named Haystack, is a custom-built file system solution for the over 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month (500 GB per day!). Jason Sobel, a former NetApp engineer, led
Finding a needle in Haystack: Facebook’s photo storage Doug Beaver, Sanjeev Kumar, Harry C. Li, Jason Sobel, Peter Vajgel, Facebook Inc. {doug, skumar, hcli, jsobel, pv}@facebook.com Abstract: This paper describes Haystack, an object stor- age system op
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos
