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David Homeren
something JS and something Ruby!
How do they manage to do it? Hoe do you get billions of new messages, index them immediately and then search through them?
Denny Trebbin
Lead Fullstack Developer. Experimenting with bleeding-edge tech. Irregularly DJ. Hobby drone pilot. Amateur photographer.
On Twitter's blog, you can find about almost anything such as the Tweet-Index.
In the background, they use multiple different storages.
Jan Vladimir Mostert
Idea Incubator
All the heavy lifting is done by the database, see highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-s…
The answer to the original question can be found here
It's not SQL exclusively. They use SQL only for commercial relevant data like Ads, etc.
They use multiple different storages.
I knew they were using Apache Mesos, didn't know about the Mysos plugin for Mesos. mesosphere.com/blog/2015/04/17/mysql-on-mesos-tod…
Daniel Greene
Maker of things
@fibric good links. Why not add as a separate answer so that everyone who is following get notifications?
Denny Trebbin
Lead Fullstack Developer. Experimenting with bleeding-edge tech. Irregularly DJ. Hobby drone pilot. Amateur photographer.
On Twitter's blog, you can find about almost anything such as the Tweet-Index.
In the background, they use multiple different storages.