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When It Comes to Social Networks, Infrastructure Wins
GigaOM (Jul 22 2010)
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Facebook is playing host to half-a-billion people. And one of the main (and unsaid) reasons it has been able to get there -- its technical underpinnings. From thousands of servers to its own datacenter, Facebook knowns social web needs big beefy and superfast web infrastructure.
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