Makeitopen.com – new Open Source learning site from Facebook

[mjohnston4]

http://makeitopen.com/

[thrusong]

Does anyone know why Facebook never followed through with open sourcing Haystack, the photo storage tool which I believe is now powering inbox attachments as well?

[captn3m0 → thrusong]

Had never heard of Haystack before. A few relevant links in case anyone is interested (It is the system powering facebook's photo storage infra):

- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20140906020211/https://www.faceb... (The note is not up anymore)

- http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2009/04/facebook-haystack.h...

[gfosco]

Lots of great and thorough content here, and I'm really happy that it uses Parse Server! https://github.com/parseplatform/parse-server