This week Facebook will complete its roll-out of a new photo storage system designed to reduce the social networkâs reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai. The new large blob storage system, named Haystack, is a custom-built file system solution for the over 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month (500 GB per day!). Jason Sobel, a former NetApp engineer, led
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