Where All Your Facebook Photos Really Go

Facebook has built one of the world's largest and most efficient data centers at the edge of the world. Here's the engineering behind its massive cloud system in Lulea.

Apr 28, 2016

Facebook has built one of the world's largest and most efficient data centers at the edge of the world. Here's the engineering behind its massive cloud system in Lulea. 

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