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

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Jul 8, 2013

  IM
• 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. No quick way to summarize, so go read the entire article, it’s worth it…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Nov 2, 2010

  Social
• 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. Scale-out vs Scale-up explains, the difference between multi-core concurrency that is often referred to as Scale-Up and…

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  Markus Perdrizat

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  Sep 29, 2010

  Technology