Blatant sign #2 that Facebook's engineering department is just one big huge Dunning-Kruger effect: https://www.facebook.com/notes/10151345597798920 … (via @liasae)
@nlrsf The lecture where they said they "created their own file system" to optimize Facebook's performance.
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@nlrsf They then went on to explain that they combined a bunch of images into one file and fread() them out to avoid calling fopen().
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@nlrsf The lecturer - who was their _head of engineering_ - seemed unaware that that was in no way a new file system.
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