8th TUC Meeting - Sergey Edunov (Facebook). Generating realistic trillion-edge graphs.
Sergey Edunov, Software Engineer at Facebook gave a great talk on how and why his company generating large-scale social graphs. The underlying reasons to start such an ambitious project are capacity planning to make sure that their system will be able to handle a graph that keeps growing year after year and fair evaluation of their system against the ones being implemented by other companies.