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Hang on, I _could_ write a (small) twitter or (early) fb clone in a weekend. Easily. That would probably scale to 10k tweets or feed entries. What I in _no_ wa
by somehnreader 11y ago
Hang on, I _could_ write a (small) twitter or (early) fb clone in a weekend. Easily. That would probably scale to 10k tweets or feed entries.
What I in _no_ way could do is rewrite fb or twitter at the scale these systems operate today with a billion users and even more posts and data points. I don't agree with the sentiment of the previous poster, but fb & twitter were initially basic CRUD apps.
- karmajunkie 11y agoI have to disagree. They were messaging brokers masquerading as or mistaken for CRUD apps, which directly led to many of their early scaling issues.
- somehnreader 11y agoBut you can just implement them(the early versions) on any old server with a nice database installed if you want to. And you can do that in a weekend. And yes of course you will want to take a step back and change almost everything about it if you want it to scale to more orders of magnitude.