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Tuesday, 29 January 2013
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Facebook: From Function-Based to Resource-Based Servers With the Disaggregated Rack

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Most of the servers are configured depending on the functionality they’ll provide: here are the web servers, here were the cache servers, and these are the database servers. Facebook has been using the same approach, but according to Mark Hackman’s post: “How Facebook Will Power Graph Search“, they’ll start looking into having resource-based racks: here’s the compute power, here’s the RAM, and here’s the storage. If you think about it, this is exactly how Amazon has structured their cloud infrastructure services.

Original title and link: Facebook: From Function-Based to Resource-Based Servers With the Disaggregated Rack (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

via: http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/how-facebook-will-power-graph-search/