A Glimpse Inside a Facebook Server Farm
Martin Schoeller for TIME
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The servers process updates to Facebook users' pages as quickly as possible, so that a comment or post is live within seconds. Multiply that across 550 million (and counting) users and the power of the data center becomes awesome indeed.
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