We left out some detail here to keep the post readable. In reality, we can handle 16 Tweets per millisecond per partition. We have tens of partitions, so that m

We left out some detail here to keep the post readable. In reality, we can handle 16 Tweets per millisecond per partition. We have tens of partitions, so that makes the edge case less likely. If we do see a gigantic growth in Tweet rate, we would need to increase the number of partitions anyways, so we decided this edge case was acceptable.