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Twitter Will Get Its Own Data Center
- davidu 17y agoMy understanding is that this is, in a word, wrong. Equinix, Switch and Data, TelX, perhaps. Leaving managed services, perhaps. Building their own, no.
- strlen 17y agoRight, this is a mis-nomer. They're going from a managed service to leasing a datacenter or leasing space (several rooms) within a datacenter. Facebook went from leased space, to leased datacenters to building their own.
- spitfire 17y agoOnly a thousand tweets(writes) a second. I found that interesting. So their entire infrastructure exists for propagation and search.