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VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer reveals the tricks that keep the world's biggest social network going.
Last week, the world's biggest social network, Facebook, announced that it had reached 300 million users and is making enough money to cover its costs.
The challenge of dealing with such a huge number of users has been highlighted by hiccups suffered by some other social-networking sites. Twitter was beleaguered with scaling problems for some time and became infamous for its "Fail Whale"--the image that appears when the microblogging site's services are unavailable.
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