Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With 'Project Prism' | WIRED
Today, countless websites are facing the epic amounts of online data that first hit Facebook a half decade ago. But according to Facebook engineering bigwig Jay Parikh, these sites have it so much easier.
That's because many of the web's largest operations — including Facebook — spent the last few years building massive software platforms capable of juggling online information across tens of thousands of servers. And they've shared much of this "Big Data" software with anyone who wants it.
Together with Yahoo, Facebook spearheaded the creation of Hadoop, a sweeping software platform for processing and analyzing the epic amounts of data streaming across the modern web. Yahoo started the open source project as a way of constructing the index that underpinned its web search engine, but others soon plugged it into their own online operations — and worked to enhance the code as necessary.
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