Meta Platforms, Inc

Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that assists people in communicating with family, friends and coworkers. It develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph and digital mapping of people's real-world connections. The company is one of the most trafficked sites, as well largest MySQL installations that runs thousands of databases in the world. It has also built a lightweight, multilanguage framework that allows company to tie together the subsystems written in various languages, running on several platforms. Facebook is one of the largest open-source caching systems that have created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries every day with real-time updates. It additionally offers online sign up options.