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Yep, so basically one request can touch hundreds of servers. It's basically the opposite approach of Twitter. They aggregate the graphs on write.
by niels 17y ago
Yep, so basically one request can touch hundreds of servers. It's basically the opposite approach of Twitter. They aggregate the graphs on write.
- niels 17y agoWhich also is the reason you can only have 5000 friends on FB. If you had a million friends, you'd probably touch all their servers for one request.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoWho is "They" in this case? Both a read and a write could be a "request", so I am having some trouble with the ambiguity of your last sentence. Thanks!
- niels 17y agoTwitter is they.