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Courtney Boyd Myers
Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and Google +.
Today, Facebook launched its “Open Compute Project” to foster joint collaboration between companies that help run large Internet systems. Products like real time Facebook wall updates are great, but Mark Zuckerberg wants to improve the world’s servers so he can keep releasing new products. While it may be the less flashy side of Facebook, highlighting its infrastructure, server design and data center design is what makes all this sexiness happen.
A complete nitty gritty rundown of Facebook’s new server design can be found at Gigaom.