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Travel back in time with me to the halcyon days of 2012, when Tumblr was the hot new thing. highscalability.com did a writeup on their novel "cell-based archit
by pianoben 4y ago
Travel back in time with me to the halcyon days of 2012, when Tumblr was the hot new thing. highscalability.com did a writeup on their novel "cell-based architecture", a whole decade earlier than this paper. It certainly inspired me at the time. We don't talk about Finagle as much anymore, but there's lots of good stuff here that still applies.
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-month-and-harder.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architectur...
- Terretta 4y agoNot the same notion of ‘cell’, that was describing something more like a macro-shard. Instead of sharding within a given DB, sharding all the things necessary to deliver a given user: Cells - A cell is a self-contained installation that has all the data for a range of users. All the data necessary to render a user’s Dashboard is in the cell. Users are mapped into cells. Many cells exist per data center.