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No one will ever be in the position of handling so much real-time data as Twitter is. The rest of us can just get on with it and stop trying to pre-empt situati
by MrMcDowall 15y ago
No one will ever be in the position of handling so much real-time data as Twitter is. The rest of us can just get on with it and stop trying to pre-empt situations that will probably never happen to us.
- xentronium 15y agoMany companies in financial sector handle similar workloads. I know a couple of HFT shops, they're all java.
- MrMcDowall 15y agoFor sure, I was meaning from the perspective of a startup. There's obviously existing industries where real-time data is big, but they don't tend to be web fronted serving hundreds of millions of users.