Comments on: How Does Facebook Work? The Nuts and Bolts [Technology Explained]

By: Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:38:00 +0000

You’re welcome Ted. Thanks!

By: Ted Thompson

Ted Thompson — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:08:00 +0000

Very interesting post. Learnt a few things I didn’t know..! Thanks for sharing.

By: Steven Campbell

Steven Campbell — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:02:28 +0000

Thanks! If you liked that I’m sure you’ll like some of our other posts.

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:00:25 +0000

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By: Milind Kale

Milind Kale — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:40:35 +0000

Really in a nutshell and very informative too goooood …Good work !

By: idrees

idrees — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:50:23 +0000

Duty paid

By: Application Development Company

Application Development Company — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:18:41 +0000

Thank you guy, you explore the Facebook coding languages very well. Python is used by Google for its products.

By: zacharty

zacharty — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:26:06 +0000

good one. its hard to find info rgdg the technologies used by these big sites. you did good.

By: Steven Campbell

Steven Campbell — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:36:29 +0000

Tornado is one of the open source developments that Facebook has been working on. It’s my understanding that they use it primarily to run FriendFeed at this point.

By: Steven Campbell

Steven Campbell — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:34:45 +0000

I agree. I would have loved to have been able to write an article like that, but the truth is that information is very difficult to find. I would have to interview someone at Facebook to understand the true inner workings, which I wouldn’t mind doing some day.

By: Babak

Babak — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:00:30 +0000

Thanks for the great post.
What about the Tornado (python web server)? Isn’t Facebook using that?

By: plsburydoughboy

plsburydoughboy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:32:02 +0000

I’m afraid it’s still too esoteric for greenhorns like me. I can see that you went with the basic information, but rather than disclosing the programs and systems used, I was expecting a piece explaining what happens between Facebook account users and the Facebook programmers and coders. How the complex web of connections was established and maintained, and how new connections are added in while prior connections stay persistent.

Well, don’t want to get too down on you, but I suppose this is more of a request for what I’d want to see in an article explaining how FB works.

By: pthesis

pthesis — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:55:46 +0000

Great topic for an article. The rest of us developers can learn a lot from seeing how big sites like Facebook and Amazon work.