Facebook’s Spooktacular Scaling for Halloween

Data Center Knowledge (Oct 30 2009) Storage

1. The growth of the Internet and mobile technology have been good for Halloween. This weekend, many of us will use the cameras in our mobile phones to snap photos of our friends and/or kids in their Halloweeen costumes, and then upload them to Facebook. This trend has made Halloween the Super Bowl for online photo storage, and one of the busiest days of the year for the Facebook web site. “Our users go all out to capture the zany costumes and freewheeling spirit, typically uploading about 20% more photos than usual during Halloween week,” Facebook engineer Doug Beaver noted last year. “That can include several daily spikes that are more than double normal levels.” (Read Full Article)

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