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m6.12xl are 48 vCPU systems. 25 million cores is a hilariously huge amount of compute to use to run a site of twitter size, which I guess does point to how much
by the8bit 4y ago
m6.12xl are 48 vCPU systems. 25 million cores is a hilariously huge amount of compute to use to run a site of twitter size, which I guess does point to how much tech debt they have ignored over time.
- throwaway2729 4y agoThey should have probably written it in Assembly.
- crazygringo 4y agoBy "twitter size" are you implying it's... small? Twitter is the 4th most visited site in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites
- steve1977 4y agoBut it’s basically just simple data moving, it should be rather trivial in terms of compute power needed.
- mazurnification 4y agoThere is nothing simple in data moving. Problem is that it can be abstracted away so you do not have to worry about it. Out of sight out of mind. Example - majority of the CPU area is devoted to data moving problem (cache, branch prediction, out of order execution, register renaming). The same is happening on other levels of the stack (OS, network and so on).
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- lolbserious 4y agoIt sounds high for sure. But they do serve videos, which possibly they have to transcode or otherwise process on import (?) They probably also have some filters for pictures to remove porn and stuff like that. This can amount to serious CPU if you have millions of users uploading that stuff daily. A pure text-based Twitter would be much smaller.
- steve1977 4y agoThere would be better EC2 instances (or AWS services) for that though.