Jay Parikh runs Facebook infrastructure
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Facebook manages one heckuva lot of data, a company official told boasted to reporters today.
Jay Parikh, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure engineering, went down a list of data stats to break down the massive amount of data the social network processes each day.
Most of the site's data, he said, is stored in a single "cluster" that takes up more than 100 petabytes of disk space. Parikh claimed that Facebook's cluster is larger than any comparable cluster at other companies.
In addition to scanning 105 terabytes of data every 30 minutes -- a process Facebook's products team often use to gauge how products are doing -- the company manages millions of photos and logs billions of likes to make sure its site is tailored to its users.
Here's a break down of how much data flows through the Facebook machine each day:
- 2.7 billion likes made daily on and off of the Facebook site
- 300 million photos uploaded
- 70,000 queries executed by people and automated systems
- 500+ terabytes of new data "ingested"
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