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Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015)
- nemothekid 5y agoThis article is pretty old (2015). As I was reading through it, I got a pretty big surprise that Twitter was still using Storm until I checked the date.
- hawk_ 5y agowhat do they use now instead of storm?
- nickphx 5y agohttps://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2021/processing-billions-of-events-in-real-time-at-twitter- https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
- wnevets 5y agothis really should be the actual post link.
- ChrisArchitect 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463
- nemothekid 5y agoWow, ok, I missed this article, but they replaced their homegrown infrastructure (Heron, Scalding, Manhattan) with GCP?!
- catchmeifyoucan 5y agothe links are broken in the article. Not sure what twitter answers was
- spullara 5y agoThe blog entry was from the Crashlytics team and the product was their mobile analytics service (called Answers by Crashlytics),
- i_like_apis 5y agoI wonder how it's 5 Billion? With the population of the Earth being 6.5 ... Billions of sessions seems like it has to be a bug.
- andrewxdiamond 5y agoCompanies, bots, alts, fake accounts, etc all inflate this number
- milbertson 5y agoPopulation of Earth is 6.5 billion? Did something terrible happen that I'm not aware of?
- i_like_apis 5y agooh 7.7 ... shows what I know.
- saagarjha 5y agoPeople have multiple sessions.
- bob229 5y ago5 billion instances of cancer every day
- ChrisArchitect 5y ago(2015)! come on anything new at twitter since then you think?
- ChrisArchitect 5y agoSome discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9079671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9079671
- 1cvmask 5y agoSince I could't correct the broken links I submitted the correct version to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463
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