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After a history of performance improvements starting with Mark Zuckerberg putting memcache on Facebook's Apache servers in 2005:

"In early 2009, a team of Facebook infrastructure engineers started to work on TAO (“The Associations and Objects”). TAO has now been in production for several years. It runs on a large collection of geographically distributed server clusters. TAO serves thousands of data types and handles over a billion read requests and millions of write requests every second."

It is solving some impressive problems, and kudos to Facebook for continuing to share neat bits of engineering with us.




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