Tag Archives: Facebook

Building “Intelligent” and Highly Automated Data Centers

I’ve been fortunate to work in a space where I’ve had exposure to see and discuss infrastructure and architecture/design of some of the most highly utilized and scalable networks in the world. It’s fair to say living in Silicon Valley … Continue reading

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Facebook – Not Your Typical Network Engineers

A few weeks ago I got an invite to attend a Facebook Open House event which just occurred yesterday. I usually receive invites to several of these types of events from different companies across Silicon Valley. Being an active developer … Continue reading

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Distributed Core Network Architecture

There is no doubt you have probably heard by now the importance of supporting ‘east-west’ traffic flow in large data center networks. So why is this and what does it mean? And when Gartner claims that 80 percent of data … Continue reading

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Facebook Hack – How “shared” is your website on Facebook?

In this blog I describe a cool little data mining hack you can use to determine how “shared” a specific website is on Facebook. Let’s say you want to determine how often the “http://www.cnet.com” site has been “shared” on Facebook. … Continue reading

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The Social Network

How accurate is the movie about the creation of Facebook? – some parts are questionable of course; it is a movie after all. “The movie got a lot of stuff wrong and random details right,” according to the founder Mark … Continue reading

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