Allen Gambrell

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.

Today is Firefox 3 download day. It started at 1:00PM Eastern.
They are trying to set a world record for the most downloads of a product in history, but it does not seem to be going well. As of writing this the Firefox site is down for repairs. Looks like they overloaded the servers.

Update: Looks like [...]