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@thehigherlife - I was thinking about the same thing recently (an announcement about FB becoming the biggest photo app on the planet). I found two great sources of information on this..

- http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture

Very deep analysis of Flickr's arch from a couple of years ago - including a link to a presentation to Cal Henderson's slides. I'm surprised he got canned from Y! yesterday though!

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Not to be wooden, but if you reply to someone's comment, I don't think there's a need to state @[username].

i don't know anything about cal's departure, but i can say that any large co like yahoo, google, msft, apple etc is more or less impervious against the loss of one or a few technical individuals. his departure may have symbolic value but the machine that is chugging there will keep chugging, for better or for worse

Don't confuse continuing to operate with continuing to innovate.

A few technical individuals can move the needle more than you'd imagine, even at a big co.

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