Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Enter Facebook.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. I was dead set against it.
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