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The suggestion algorithms are more of a technical challenge than concurrency, at Twitter scale. Tesla does a lot more ML than SpaceX. (and let's be honest, Tw
by bpodgursky 4y ago
The suggestion algorithms are more of a technical challenge than concurrency, at Twitter scale. Tesla does a lot more ML than SpaceX.
(and let's be honest, Twitter hasn't solved the concurrency issues, so I'm not sure there's much to review)
- permo-w 4y agotwitter is one of the slowest of all the big modern websites. half the time all it has to load is text and it still takes up to 30 seconds
- stingraycharles 4y agoThat’s a site design issue, not a backend / data storage / concurrency algorithms issue.
- permo-w 4y agohow do you know but also yes it probably is just shitty overuse of worthless js
- stingraycharles 4y agoBecause the requests that render the actual content are very fast, it’s just overhead that makes things slow.
- bpodgursky 4y agoMy unread notifications always load 15-60 seconds after loading my timeline. Definitely does not seem like a pageload issue, it's some kind of BE processing latency.