Abstractions at Scale–Our Experiences at Twitter

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Abstraction,

Object Oriented Design,

BigTable,

OOP,

QCon San Francisco 2010,

Design,

Methodologies,

NoSQL,

QCon,

Architecture,

Performance & Scalability,

Programming,

Database,

Conferences,

Twitter,

MapReduce

Marius Eriksen considers that scalability problems appear when leaky abstractions are used, exemplifying with RDBMS, GC, and threads, presenting abstractions that help dealing with scalability issues: map-reduce, shared-nothing web applications, big table, all providing narrow access to explicit resources.

•  By  Marius Eriksen on Dec 14, 2010,
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