Facebook release Scribe in Open Source
Latest move from Facebook in direction to the open source community, Scribe, a special server software developed by and for Facebook as been released under the Apache 2.0 licence. The purpose if this server is to aggregate data from a large number of sever in real time.
I would say the success of Facebook and its growth over the past few years shows that this technology has done its proof. Here is what Robert Johnson says about Scribe:
The system we built turned out to be enormously useful, handling over 100 use cases and tens of billions of messages a day. It has also been battle tested by just about anything that can go wrong
Taking advantage of an other of the open source product from Facobook, Thrift, Scribe is able to handle many different languages such as c++, java, python, php or ruby. So if you are developing a social application, look at Scribe, it might be what you need.
Seems the open source sphere is doing well at the moment with more and more big companies investing in the open projects. An other example would be the choice by Microsoft to expend their ASP.NET Ajax Framework with jQuery.
Benoit Gilloz
Programmer, Research and Development
