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Yes, Twitter's backend is actually quite sophisticated. It's one thing to build a very small Twitter clone for you and your friends, it's quite another to scal
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
Yes, Twitter's backend is actually quite sophisticated.
It's one thing to build a very small Twitter clone for you and your friends, it's quite another to scale that up to hundreds of millions of users and keep everything running smoothly.
- overcast 10y agoBut that's exactly what is what as the beginning. Twitter spent a significant amount of its early days sitting on the Fail Whale screen. Sure, now it's stable, when you throw a complete rewrite, and millions of dollars at it.
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