Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware

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Post by daveman692 » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 6:17 PM UTC

Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware
theregister.co.uk

Re: Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware

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Post by duskwuff » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:07 PM UTC

Article is factually incorrect; MediaWiki doesn't run on HipHop yet. They're currently discussing adding support on their dev list.

Re: Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware

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Post by postfuturist » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:30 PM UTC

What could this sentence possibly mean?

"His crew can build a more than 1GB in about 15 minutes (after stripping out debug information)"

1GB binary? 1GB of PHP? 1GB of C++ output? None of these sound like a good idea.

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Post by rbarooah » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:33 PM UTC

"Unlike Google, you see, Facebook has been known to promptly open-source some of the most important pieces of its back-end infrastructure."

Re: Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:35 PM UTC

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Post by clistctrl » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:35 PM UTC

rbarooah wrote: post #4

"Unlike Google, you see, Facebook has been known to promptly open-source some of the most important pieces of its back-end infrastructure."

This irked me, Google has contributed quite a bit to the open source world.

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Post by rodion_89 » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:36 PM UTC

rbarooah wrote: post #4

"Unlike Google, you see, Facebook has been known to promptly open-source some of the most important pieces of its back-end infrastructure."

"No one is using BigTable or the Second Coming of the Google File System. Except for Google."

I've never read anything from theregister before, but is this really what to expect?

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Post by acdha » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:42 PM UTC

rodion_89 wrote: post #7

rbarooah wrote: post #4

"Unlike Google, you see, Facebook has been known to promptly open-source some of the most important pieces of its back-end infrastructure."

"No one is using BigTable or the Second Coming of the Google File System. Except for Google." I've never read anything from theregister before, but is this really what to expect?

Yes, they're a self-described IT tabloid. It can be entertaining but usually falls short.

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Post by ojilles » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:48 PM UTC

postfuturist wrote: post #3

What could this sentence possibly mean? "His crew can build a more than 1GB in about 15 minutes (after stripping out debug information)" 1GB binary? 1GB of PHP? 1GB of C++ output? None of these sound like a good idea.

I think it's the output. Also, the timing is relevant as the project documentation keeps talking about distributed compiling etc. I think that's how the sentence was meant: we can compile 1GB in 15 minutes (speed).

Re: Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware

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Post by bartl » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 7:50 PM UTC

So they dropped some rarely used functionality from PHP,... like serialization.

Excuse me, "rarely used"?? Drupal strongly depends on serialization, to store data structures in the database (or, as they call it, "the cache").

You cannot effectively run Drupal without serialization. So "The likes of Drupal, MediaWiki, and WordPress are now using HipHop." sounds like it cannot be true.