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AI-generatedScaling the Social Graph: How Facebook's TAO Manages Distributed Reads
Explore how Facebook's TAO handles billions of social graph edges using a read-through cache and write-behind MySQL sharding to achieve sub-millisecond latency.
mysql-shardingdistributed-systemsgraph-databaseTasadduq Burneyowner26.5K rep · 03 Jun 2026, 19:18 UTC