Image via WikipediaAdam Ostrow has talked about the changes in Facebook’s architecture. Facebook is going open and will be now sharing its architecture/source-code with the entire community. Adam has talked about a new server which is being built by Facebook. The server is a called as Scribe and like any other open-source application can be downloaded from as a project on SourceForge, where developers can track updates, request features, and submit bug reports.

I think the vital feature here is ’scability’. This is something which has always been a feature of Facebook and will continue to be ! You talk about other social-networking sites and they just simply aren’t scalable enough. While the no. of users keep on growing we see outages/down-times of popular websites like twitter etc.

Scribe is primarily a logging server for managing the network statistics. It is not the thing if you’re looking to build a social network.

As Adam says Scribe might be something worth a look