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Twitter is mostly an infrastructure operation imho, someone school me. It’s a scale-based problem space, how do you get all these tweets out in real time at min
by crate_barre 4y ago
Twitter is mostly an infrastructure operation imho, someone school me. It’s a scale-based problem space, how do you get all these tweets out in real time at minimum, and at best, how do you do some level of topic bucketing on top of it.
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoRight but "the algorithm" is inextricably tied in with scaling. "the algorithm" is designed to handle updates at scale and the model probably has different parts updating to different events on different cadences.