A Rare Tour Of Facebook's Hardware Labs And The Amazing Stuff It Builds There (FB)

People share more than 4.75 billion things every day on Facebook, like status updates, wall posts, photos, videos and comments, Facebook says. They also "Like" more than 4.5 billion things daily and send more than 10 billion messages. Jump straight to the pictures of Facebook's hardware labs » It requires a mind-boggling huge technical infrastructure to deliver all of that — hundreds of thousands of servers, hard drives, and so on. A few years ago, Facebook started building its own hardware t...