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The top tier of the Facebook network is made up of the Web servers that create the Web pages that users see, most with eight cores running 64-bit Linux and Apache. Many of the social network's pages and features are created using PHP, a computer scripting language specialized for simple, automated functions. But Facebook also develops complex core applications using a variety of full-featured computer languages, including C++, Java, Python, and Ruby. To manage the complexity of this approach, the company created Thrift, an application framework that lets programs compiled from different languages work together.
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