Avery Ching: Systems ThinkerArticle Author: Thejaswini M A Article Compiled by: Block unicorn
Preface
The Facebook graph has trillions of edges.
This number is like a milestone in Avery Ching's mind, a proof point of what a well-designed distributed system can achieve. A trillion connections have been established between people, photos, posts, and locations. Using commercial hardware available from any company, all analysis can be completed in four minutes.
Ching knows this because he built the system that makes all of this possible with his own hands.
In 2007, Ching, who had just graduated from the PhD program at Northwestern University, co-founded Apache Giraph at Yahoo. The project was initially an experiment in distributed graph processing, but ultimately provided the technical support for Facebook's graph search, fundamentally changing the landscape.
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