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Slideshow: Open source at Facebook
How the social networking giant uses open source tools to achieve its massive app scalablilty.
Facebook has risen from a a niche social networking service among US universities to become one of the biggest sites on the Internet, connecting millions of people from all around the world. A visualisation of live friend requests is shown here. What is less known is Facebook was built almost entirely from open source software.
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