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Jul 7, 2017 at 4:36 comment added mattnz "Only Google knows what those systems are built with".. I even have some doubts about that :) In my experience, no single entity (person or otherwise) can list all the parts of a very large system. In many cases, buried in the bowls of some server is a long forgotten piece of Perl, Fortran or KSH script that performs 'Magic' .
Jul 6, 2017 at 18:25 comment added Jules Worth noting here that as with Google and Python, Facebook's use of PHP is largely as glue ... My understanding is that for most functions, the PHP is mostly just used as a relatively simple client onto a more complex server system that is typically implemented in a more traditional "heavyweight" language, such as Java, C++, Haskell, OCaML, etc.
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Mar 25, 2015 at 15:38 comment added dyesdyes "You can't just grab few college graduates"..."and expect them to write software that scales across millions of users." would have probably been enough.
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