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Meta’s Software System Blueprint: Unveiling the Architecture of Social Graphs, Identity, and RTB (5)
A deep dive into the engineering breakthroughs — from cutting-edge data centers to resilient network architecture — that power billions of global connections.
Disclosure: I use GPT search to collection facts. The entire article is drafted by me.
Introduction
Beneath the digital world lies a precision-engineered machine supporting the social interactions of 3 billion global users — Facebook’s infrastructure architecture. This system processes over 2 trillion requests daily, transferring 400PB of data, equivalent to processing the entire U.S. Library of Congress collection every second. This article delves into its design philosophy, revealing the engineering wisdom from hardware innovation to global network orchestration that makes Facebook one of the most resilient digital platforms ever built.
