| generic-user-1 said: and facebook isnt a real tech company, they dont have any outstanding tech,facebook as product isnt realy impressiv or won the race because its the best. they just dont have the knowhow. facebook is a one trick pony, not more. |
They do have some pretty advanced database tech, query cache technology and high-availability technology. Just keeping their huge network available with almost no (full, not partial) downtime demands a lot of technology.
However, they aren't that innovative. Even in areas where they should keep pushing tech like parallel databases are mostly pushed forward by other companies like Google (Map-reduce is magical), MS, Oracle and open source projects like Postgres and non-relational DBs. But they did developed frameworks and worked with hardware drivers to improve their datacenter's performance. They just lag behind other tech companies of the same size or even smaller ones.
