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To be fair -- Twitter is a much harder architectural problem (significant fan-out and fan-in problems to solve). Pokemon Go is less complicated in terms of the
by rryan 10y ago
To be fair -- Twitter is a much harder architectural problem (significant fan-out and fan-in problems to solve).
Pokemon Go is less complicated in terms of the conceptual model. There are only a few pretty simple ways that different players can interact (gyms, lures on pokestops, that's about it).
- chickenbane 10y agoOn the other hand, Twitter is dealing with strings < 140 character. Pokemon Go is tracking all the trainers and Pokemon at all times, not to mention the gyms and lures.
- andy_ppp 10y agoSure, but you can partition based on country, city and even block, it's clear how this should work. None of Twitter can be partitioned like that because every user follows different people.
- jsemrau 10y agoOf course this makes you wonder if this is at all necessary and the right design decision.