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> Fast forward a few years and we were running a network with POPs on five continents and data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers. That seems high g
by seanmccann 10y ago
> Fast forward a few years and we were running a network with POPs on five continents and data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers.
That seems high given Twitter's size and the hardware distribution pie chart they showed. Does anybody have an idea how this compares?
- smueller1234 10y agoI'm working for a very successful Internet company with 9 figure user count. We have 7 or 8 POPs on 4 continents and run a low 5 digit number of servers. This being said: we do not have to deal with anything like the network effect and lifestyle type usage that twitter has. Once you pass a certain size and complexity of infrastructure it happens really easily that economy of scale doesn't help and the complexity of everything having to be distributed works against your efficiency big time. So I'm not shocked by their numbers.
- easytiger 10y agoWeb companies think 12k transactions per node is fine. It isn't fine. They just have an idiotic funding ans scaling model