> Reddit and Netflix are hosted on AWS so yes you could.
Those are read-heavy properties (yes, even Reddit, a miracle of aggressive caching). Don't underestimate Facebook's write load, which is the bloody difficult thing to scale.
Those are read-heavy properties (yes, even Reddit, a miracle of aggressive caching). Don't underestimate Facebook's write load, which is the bloody difficult thing to scale.
Little bit (somewhat outdated) here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/26/reddit-lessons-lea...
User actions like upvoting vs liking per user probably falls in reddits favor but the content being shared on facebook is much larger in size.