Meta (Facebook)
Social Media
Meta (Facebook)

Social media giant serving 3+ billion users with real-time feed, messaging, and content delivery at unprecedented scale

Employees:80,000+
Revenue:$117B+
Founded:2004
HQ:Menlo Park, CA
Ticker:META
Key Metrics
Users3B+ monthly active users
Uptime99.99%
Photos Uploaded/Day350M+
TAO Graph Edges1T+
API Requests/sec100M+
Tech Stack
React
React Native
Hack
MySQL
TAO
Custom Data Centers
Presto
PyTorch
System Architecture

Massive Distributed System with TAO

Meta Architecture

Social Platform at Billion-User Scale

Client Layer (3B+ Users)

Web App
React, Relay
Mobile Apps
React Native
Messenger
React Native

API Layer

GraphQL Gateway
GraphQL, Relay
Thrift Services
Thrift

Core Services

News Feed
ML Ranking
Social Graph
TAO
Messenger
E2E Encryption

Data Layer

MySQL
Sharded, 1000+ clusters
TAO
1T+ edges
Memcache
1000+ servers

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Sources

https://engineering.fb.comhttps://github.com/facebook

Last updated: 2024-12-01