Being enthused by my previous blog post,I have started researching and found out the unknown (or otherwise not understandable) technologies used by Facebook.
Here is a glimpse of some of them :
While FBJavaScript's Animation library delivers much of the same functionality as other animation libraries, the interface is much different. It's a great improvement over current libraries. Understanding the code doesn't require complex dictionaries of properties, but instead relies on intuitive method chaining.
Scribe
Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine.
In short,it takes your data which is divided into various servers into a single page.
For example,when you log-in and see your profile,all the data is not always (or rather never) stored on a single server. Scribe gets data from all the servers,aggregates it and shows on the client side just as if it is from single server.This shows its great speed and robustness.
It is now used extensively for ticker in Facebook.
Other technologies in successive posts.....
Here is a glimpse of some of them :
Facebook Animation (Facebook JavaScript)
It is a customizable library of JavaScript (also called FaceBookJavaScript) which gives developers an easy way to improve their user interface with a line of code or two. All animations are CSS based, so a working knowledge of CSS will really help you out here. It is mostly used to create custom animations using CSS and DOM changes and additions.While FBJavaScript's Animation library delivers much of the same functionality as other animation libraries, the interface is much different. It's a great improvement over current libraries. Understanding the code doesn't require complex dictionaries of properties, but instead relies on intuitive method chaining.
Scribe
Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine.
In short,it takes your data which is divided into various servers into a single page.
For example,when you log-in and see your profile,all the data is not always (or rather never) stored on a single server. Scribe gets data from all the servers,aggregates it and shows on the client side just as if it is from single server.This shows its great speed and robustness.
It is now used extensively for ticker in Facebook.
Other technologies in successive posts.....
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