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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)

∞ 4/14/2008 (9:56pm)

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