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On average I guess that makes sense. The peaks must be ridiculously high though.
by 83457 4y ago
On average I guess that makes sense. The peaks must be ridiculously high though.
- woevdbz 4y agoI'd assume it's not so much the peaks that are a challenge - most of these 10k tweets/second aren't critical to serve to anyone fast, and that scales horizontally- it's the hot spots, that one tweet thread in the spotlight right now that everybody wants to read and jump on - that doesn't scale by just adding more servers