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Twitter initially ran everything in the cloud. I should know, I was employee 13. It was much cheaper to build our own server hardware and move to our own server
by netik 8y ago
Twitter initially ran everything in the cloud. I should know, I was employee 13. It was much cheaper to build our own server hardware and move to our own server and network agreements. Peering and transit is cheaper at scale, as is commodity hardware.
- rrdharan 8y agoThose numbers have changed since you left. And they could change again. It's all dynamic: these comparisons and the economically and strategically "correct" choices change over time depending on talent availability, demand, speed of scaling requirements and so on. See https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2018/a-new-collaboration-with-google-cloud.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc....