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The Little Engine(s) That Could: Scaling Online Social Networks

The Little Engine(s) That Could: Scaling Online Social Networks

The difficulty of partitioning social graphs has introduced new system design challenges for scaling of Online Social Networks (OSNs). Vertical scaling by resorting to full replication can be a costly proposition. Scaling horizontally by partitioning and distributing data among multiple servers using, for e.g., key-value stores using DHTs, can suffer from expensive inter-server communication and other performance issues. Such challenges have often led to costly re-architecting efforts for popular OSNs like Twitter and Facebook. This video presents a solution to these challenges.