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Tag: Architecture

The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds

Impressive! The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds

July 8, 2013
How to Know if Your Application is Strategic

How to know if your application is “strategic”, an excellent title to start a conversation, down to the quotation marks! Nick Malik explains what to do to move your application into the strategic quadrant, but it equally applies to projects etc.… Continued

November 2, 2010
Scalability and Databases
Following up on yesterday’s scalability post, here are some more pointers to interesting articles about scalability and databases:
- The Complexities of Scale tries to explore the meaning of the term “scale,” specifically in the context of cloud computing.
… Continued
September 29, 2010