System-design

Technology Stack Comparison: Meta (Facebook), Industry, and AWS

Layer	Meta (Facebook)	Industry	AWS Service
Cloud Platform	Proprietary, as well as using AWS, Azure, and Google	AWS, Azure, Google Cloud	AWS
Queue / Async Tier	RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ	RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ	Amazon SQS
Stream	Kafka, Hive, HBase, Scribe	Apache Kafka, Redis Streams	Amazon Kinesis, Amazon EventBridge
Containerization	Tupperware (now called Twine)	Docker & Kubernetes	AWS ECS - Elastic Container Service
CI/CD	Sapling: Mercurial (Hg), custom	Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD	AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy
OS	Linux	Linux	Linux
Database	MySQL, RocksDB, TAO (custom NoSQL FB API)	MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB	AWS Aurora, AWS DynamoDB, Amazon RDS
Search	Custom, Elasticsearch	Elasticsearch	AWS OpenSearch
Server-side Programming	Hack, C++, Haxl, Rust, Python, Java	C++, C#, Java, Python, GoLang, Rust …	Any
Cache	Memcache	Memcache, Redis, DynamoDB	AWS ElastiCache (supports Redis and Memcached)
Load Balancer	Proxygen, Katran	Nginx, HAProxy	AWS ELB - Elastic Load Balancing
CDN	FBCDN, Facebook Edge Network, Akamai	Cloudflare	AWS CloudFront
Mobile Client	React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Lightspeed, Kotlin, Native Templates	React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Flutter …	Any
Web Client	React, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL	JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, Next.js, Django, Rust …	Any
Security	OAuth, custom	OAuth, Okta	AWS Cognito, IAM