How Facebook stores images

June 26, 2008

The manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, Jason Sobel gave a lecture at Stanford about how Facebook stores all there images. They have around 6.5 billion images, in 4 or 5 sizes each, totaling ~30 billion files, and a total of 540 TB and serving 475,000 images per second at peak.

The presentation is here.

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