Facebook has, in the last six months, managed to double in speed, and there’s a very interesting post from the guys at Facebook to explain just how they’ve managed to improve so very much over so short a time.

Fair play to the folks at Facebook for keeping everything moving without needing their own Fail Wail

The post to Facebook’s Engineering Notes page does a fairly solid job of describing the areas in which Facebook felt it needed to improve and the manner in which it picked up speed over the last six months. Since June of 2009, Facebook has managed to become twice as fast, so you can imagine there’s been some considerable improvements, especially given the fact that the social network’s user base has been growing steadily.

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It’s emerged that Microsoft has patented a system by which peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing, or downloading via bittorrent, would see the integration of digital rights management (DRM).

Word comes via TomsHardware of the patent filed by Microsoft, which would help the company roll out software through digital distribution without putting too much weight on its own servers. It’s an interesting distribution model, and one that usually allows users to have their content on release day without fear of stock shortages. Of course, the general issue with heavy-duty digital distribution is the stress on servers, which generally results in slowed downloads on busy days; this is neatly turned to an advantage using P2P networking.

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