How Facebook Works »
Posted By schestowitz 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyThe top tier of the Facebook network is made up of the Web servers that create the Web pages that users see, most with eight cores running 64-bit Linux and Apache. Many of the social network's pages and features are created using PHP, a computer scripting language specialized for simple, automated functions.
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