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Company architectures

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Company architectures

Company Reference(s)
Amazon Amazon architecture
Cinchcast Producing 1,500 hours of audio every day
DataSift Realtime datamining At 120,000 tweets per second
Dropbox How we've scaled Dropbox
ESPN Operating At 100,000 duh nuh nuhs per second
Google Google architecture
Instagram 14 million users, terabytes of photos
What powers Instagram
Justin.tv Justin.Tv's live video broadcasting architecture
Facebook Scaling memcached at Facebook
TAO: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph
Facebook’s photo storage
How Facebook Live Streams To 800,000 Simultaneous Viewers
Flickr Flickr architecture
Mailbox From 0 to one million users in 6 weeks
Netflix A 360 Degree View Of The Entire Netflix Stack
Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
Pinterest From 0 To 10s of billions of page views a month
18 million visitors, 10x growth, 12 employees
Playfish 50 million monthly users and growing
PlentyOfFish PlentyOfFish architecture
Salesforce How they handle 1.3 billion transactions a day
Stack Overflow Stack Overflow architecture
TripAdvisor 40M visitors, 200M dynamic page views, 30TB data
Tumblr 15 billion page views a month
Twitter Making Twitter 10000 percent faster
Storing 250 million tweets a day using MySQL
150M active users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S firehose
Timelines at scale
Big and small data at Twitter
Operations at Twitter: scaling beyond 100 million users
How Twitter Handles 3,000 Images Per Second
Uber How Uber scales their real-time market platform
Lessons Learned From Scaling Uber To 2000 Engineers, 1000 Services, And 8000 Git Repositories
WhatsApp The WhatsApp architecture Facebook bought for $19 billion
YouTube YouTube scalability
YouTube architecture