You can check the developer section of facebook below the url
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Are there are reports or papers describing the architecture of facebook. Like do they use any PHP frameworks or do they have their own.
For a normal social networking site with no transactions - what PHP framework is recommended.
Please let me know
Thanks
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You can check the developer section of facebook below the url
http://developers.facebook
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by: Patrick_NGPosted on 2009-03-26 at 01:25:50ID: 23988171
Facebook uses a rather complex combination of software for it's infrastructure, where "Thrift" is one of the core frameworks ... it's open source meanwhile, you can find out more about it at http://incubator.apache.or g/thrift/
et/), but at a price of 250$.
I haven't given free frameworks for social networks a try yet. One of our clients was highly satisfied with "SocialEngine" (http://www.socialengine.n