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Also it's needed to remember that Twitter had 100 million users in 2012. A lot of "off the shelf" infra that we can use today just did not exist in 2012. They h

Also it's needed to remember that Twitter had 100 million users in 2012. A lot of "off the shelf" infra that we can use today just did not exist in 2012. They had to build for scale at that time, and a lot of those choices might not translate easily to something off the shelf now.

prvit 4y ago
> A lot of "off the shelf" infra that we can use today just did not exist in 2012 Do you happen to have some examples? Very curious to hear about this.
- Fiahil 4y ago
  kubernetes
- cmckn 4y ago
  I mean, even like J̶e̶n̶k̶i̶n̶s̶ and Kafka were barely a year old in 2012. Hadoop wouldn’t be replaced by Spark for 2 more years. Mesos was in its infancy. Other companies had similar problems to solve, and they also had to build it themselves for the most part.
  - plorkyeran 4y ago
    Jenkins came out in 2005. 2011 was just when the project was renamed from Hudson due to Oracle trademarking the original name.
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- fomine3 4y ago
  Bazel was released in 2015
- KptMarchewa 4y ago
  First version of Docker was released in 2013 and was a curiosity for a few years. Kubernetes was launched in 2014, and similarly, was mostly a curiosity for a few years. Twitter at that time made an (probably?) unlucky bet on Mesos, a competing but not that similar technology, that is now pretty much dead. Google Cloud launched it's VM service in beta in 2012. A lot of base AWS services did exist, but was similarly a curiosity: AWS 2012 revenue was 2 billion. This year they are on track to 80 billion.