Flickr Architecture

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Flickr Platform

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Shards
  • Memcached for a caching layer.
  • Squid in reverse-proxy for html and images.
  • Linux (RedHat)
  • Smarty for templating
  • Perl
  • PEAR for XML and Email parsing
  • ImageMagick, for image processing
  • Java, for the node service
  • Apache
  • SystemImager for deployment
  • Ganglia for distributed system monitoring
  • Subcon stores essential system configuration files in a subversion repository for easy deployment to machines in a cluster.
  • Cvsup for distributing and updating collections of files across a network.

Flickr Architecture

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