Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster - High Scalability
A fascinating look at the technology employed by the folks at Twitter to keep the ship running. In particular, scaling problems associated with huge and rapid increases in activity (c/o belacqua66)
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POSTED Monday April 14th
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