Answer (1 of 14): As an outsider looking in, Facebook does a ton of great stuff, these would be some highlights for me- * Scribe. There is Flume now, which is very competitive, but Scribe solved a hard problem most people miss when they build distributed services that become busy. * The MySQL ...
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