Coffee Bytes with Cloud

Ever Wondered How Your FB Message Flies? 🚀💌

Swami K
2 min readMay 23, 2023
Ever Wondered How Your FB Message Flies? 🚀💌

Ever wonder how your messages fly through the ether? Thank the cloud!🌩️💬

👋Hey, Marvelous Cloud Crusaders! Swami K here again, caffeinating you with another episode of ‘Coffee Bytes with Cloud’ ☕🌩️. Today, we’ll journey to the magical world of cloud computing, aiming our spyglass at Facebook Messenger! 👀💬

Facebook Messenger, the Iron Man of communication tools, connects us to friends and family, near and far, faster than Quicksilver himself. It’s a cloud service. But what does that mean? How does your “Good morning” text to your BFF travel faster than Thor’s Mjolnir? 🤔💫🔨

Imagine you’re Tony Stark 🕶️. Tapping the Facebook Messenger icon is like stepping into your Iron Man suit, ready for action. You type a message (our ‘secret mission’), hit send, and just like that, your digital letter zooms into the cloud — the digital realm of the All-seeing Heimdall. It gets transported over the internet, kinda like Rocket Raccoon cruising through space in the Milano. 🚀🌌

This data travels to Facebook’s Asgard, a kingdom of colossal data centers. Here, a software Valkyrie reads your message, checks the ‘address’ (your friend’s name), and places it into the recipient’s ‘inbox’ like a digital letterbox. 🏰📬

Next, your friend’s Facebook Messenger, another Iron Man suit, retrieves the message from this cloud inbox, and presto! Your “Good morning” wish is beaming on your friend’s screen. 💡📱

Just like Asgard is separate from Earth, the cloud is a realm apart from your device. Facebook Messenger, our digital Bifrost, connects you to this realm. Your data isn’t locked in your device but safely nestled in the cloud, which never sleeps (or gets full!) like our buddy Vision. 👀💾

Every superhero team needs a universal language, and Facebook uses APIs as their intergalactic lingo to communicate across devices and platforms. Unlike Thor, who travels to Earth using the Bifrost, Facebook, like Loki, owns its own passage (cloud provider) because, well, who doesn’t like a cost-effective, tailor-made solution! 😎🌁

Phew! That was a whirlwind tour, wasn’t it? To sum up, your digital messages, just like Dr. Strange’s mystical spells, weave through intricate patterns across the cloud universe, defying physical distances in a heartbeat. So next time you send an FB message, remember, you’re Tony Stark summoning his suit. Cool, huh? 😏🤳

That’s all for today’s cosmic cup of coffee, folks! As we leave the realms of Asgard, do you have any intriguing cloud stories to share? How do you imagine your messages traveling through the digital cosmos? 🌠🌌💬

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Swami K

Senior Director of DevOps & SRE at Kissflow | Integrating Netflix DevOps Culture & Google SRE Practices to Empower Our Engineering Team 🚀🔧