Shanti’s Dispatches

For one, that it doesn’t require some fancy MVC framework ( ) to build an app that reaches hundreds of millions of people.

Facebook code for searching and homepage code.

I am by no means knocking it, but the code does not stand out as remarkable or some kind of work of staggering genius. It simply works — and works well.

That being said,

• No one can argue with Facebook’s scaling ability
• The real genius / scaling code behind Facebook was not in the released pages.

If anything, I’d love to see the FBML parser / FB Applications module.

Awesome comment found in the facebook source:

// Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you’ve ever seen?!

Lulz.

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