The Evolution of Advanced Caching in the Facebook CDN - Facebook Research
The Facebook Content Distribution Network (FBCDN) delivers photos and videos to people who use Facebook. The stack for the FBCDN includes several layers of caches and multiple backend storage systems (e.g. Haystack, f4). Today, we are sharing the story of how the caching layers of that stack has evolved over the last few years. It's also a story about how research and production are tightly coupled within Facebook.
Apr 7, 2016 ... The Facebook Content Distribution Network (FBCDN) delivers photos and videos to people who use Facebook. The stack for the FBCDN ...