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Big Data in Real Time at Twitter

Topics
QCon London 2011,
NoSQL,
QCon,
Data Access,
Database,
Performance & Scalability,
Architecture,
Conferences,
Twitter,
Real Time Web

Nick Kallen discusses how Twitter handles large amounts of data in real time by creating 4 data types and query patterns -tweets, timelines, social graphs, search indices-, and the DBs storing them.

Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter

Topics
JVM,
Virtual Machines,
Runtimes,
Scala,
Dynamic Languages,
Java,
JVM Languages,
Functional Programming,
QCon,
Languages,
Concurrency,
Object Oriented Design,
Programming,
Twitter,
Design,
Conferences,
Actors

Nick Kallen from Twitter is interviewed by Randy Shoup about Twitter’s use of the Scala programming language. Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages.