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I wonder why Twitter doesn't do consulting. They have developed a lot of the big data frameworks that we use today and understand how to scale. They have the

I wonder why Twitter doesn't do consulting. They have developed a lot of the big data frameworks that we use today and understand how to scale. They have the talent and are in a unique position of being Twitter.

Rapzid 10y ago
Just out of curiosity, which ones have they developed?
- niftich 10y ago
  Some software that Twitter has put out: [1] Heron, a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine - https://github.com/twitter/heron https://github.com/twitter/heron [2] Finagle, a fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system - https://github.com/twitter/finagle/ https://github.com/twitter/finagle/ [3] FlockDB, a distributed, fault-tolerant graph database - https://github.com/twitter/flockdb https://github.com/twitter/flockdb [4] Gizzard, a flexible sharding framework for creating eventually-consistent distributed datastores - https://github.com/twitter/gizzard https://github.com/twitter/gizzard [5] Twemcache, a Twitter fork of Memcached - https://github.com/twitter/twemcache https://github.com/twitter/twemcache [6] Twemproxy, a fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis - https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
  - moderation 10y ago
    [7] Mesos, abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively. - http://mesos.apache.org/ http://mesos.apache.org/ Mesos was invented at UC Berkeley but developed and battle tested at Twitter.
  - brooklyndude 10y ago
    Bootstrap too.
  - intoverflow2 10y ago
    Keep seeing people on HN championing Twitters huge employee number by bringing up this stuff. In the light of this news was any of this time well spent? Or is it just engineers hoping that dev-facing work is actually of value to a company when the wolves are circling?
flukus 10y ago
Is there a big enough market for their expertise? There aren't a lot of companies in the world that operate on the same scale.

Rapzid 10y ago

Just out of curiosity, which ones have they developed?

niftich 10y ago
Some software that Twitter has put out: [1] Heron, a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine - https://github.com/twitter/heron https://github.com/twitter/heron [2] Finagle, a fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system - https://github.com/twitter/finagle/ https://github.com/twitter/finagle/ [3] FlockDB, a distributed, fault-tolerant graph database - https://github.com/twitter/flockdb https://github.com/twitter/flockdb [4] Gizzard, a flexible sharding framework for creating eventually-consistent distributed datastores - https://github.com/twitter/gizzard https://github.com/twitter/gizzard [5] Twemcache, a Twitter fork of Memcached - https://github.com/twitter/twemcache https://github.com/twitter/twemcache [6] Twemproxy, a fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis - https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
- moderation 10y ago
  [7] Mesos, abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively. - http://mesos.apache.org/ http://mesos.apache.org/ Mesos was invented at UC Berkeley but developed and battle tested at Twitter.
- brooklyndude 10y ago
  Bootstrap too.
- intoverflow2 10y ago
  Keep seeing people on HN championing Twitters huge employee number by bringing up this stuff. In the light of this news was any of this time well spent? Or is it just engineers hoping that dev-facing work is actually of value to a company when the wolves are circling?

flukus 10y ago

Is there a big enough market for their expertise? There aren't a lot of companies in the world that operate on the same scale.