Answer (1 of 25): From various readings and conversations I had, my understanding of Facebook's current architecture is: * Web front-end written in PHP. Facebook's HipHop Compiler [1] then converts it to C++ and compiles it using g++, thus providing a high performance templating and Web logic ex...
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