“At a high level, this workload is simultaneously latency-sensitive and throughput-bound. Each web server needs to respond to a given user request quickly as well as serve requests from multiple users in parallel. In CPU terms, we require good single-thread performance and excellent throughput with a large number of concurrent threads. We have architected this workload so that we can parallelize the requests using PHP's stateless execution model. There isn't much interaction between requests on a given web server, allowing us to efficiently scale out across a large number of machines.”
— Facebook Engineering, Facebook's new front-end server design delivers on performance without sucking up power
Tagged: Ops
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Read:
Facebook's new front-end server design delivers on performance without sucking up power

Explore more quotes:

Beach Quotes (42)
Deep Quotes (500)
Encouraging Quotes (30)
Funny Quotes (120)
Inspirational Quotes (501)
Quotes about Love (854)
TV Quotes (1,000+)
Movie Quotes (1,000+)

About the author

This page was created by our editorial team. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.

Kelly Peacock is an accomplished poet and social media expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Kelly has a Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Farieligh Dickinson University and has contributed to many literary and cultural publications. Kelly assists on a wide variety of quote inputting and social media functions for Quote Catalog. Visit her personal website here.

Kendra Syrdal is a writer, editor, partner, and senior publisher for The Thought & Expression Company. Over the last few years she has been personally responsible for writing, editing, and producing over 30+ million pageviews on Thought Catalog.