Elephants, war rooms and 30 petabytes – this is what it takes to keep Facebook’s data in check according to one of its most recent blog posts. After building out its new data center in Prineville, ...

Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert. Facebook has released source code for scheduling workloads on the Apache Hadoop data ...

As the world’s largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year. Facebook stores much of the data on its massive Hadoop cluster, ...