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"Realtime" is amazing and new, when it's in conjunction with web-scale data. Remember when Google used to take weeks to update its index? > The technology twi
by fizx 17y ago
"Realtime" is amazing and new, when it's in conjunction with web-scale data. Remember when Google used to take weeks to update its index?
> The technology twitter is simple, anyone could build it. You could likely run twitter on 10 servers max.
I'm not sure whether you're being disingenuous or naive.
- anApple 17y agoYou are naive. It's a dead simple system.
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- axod 17y agoI'm just stating a fact :/ It's a simple message passing service. It's pretty much as complex as a router that supports multicast UDP. eg not very.
- tptacek 17y agoMulticast UDP is so easy that it has never successfully been deployed at Internet scale.
- axod 17y agoBuilding a router that supports multicast UDP is simple. Getting THE INTERNET to all simultaneously upgrade is the hard bit.
- tptacek 17y agoMaintaining group-based routing tables for individual pieces of content as opposed to hosts that serve many pieces of content is a hard problem, and no vendor has solved it.