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Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter
Summary
Raffi Krikorian details Twitter’s timeline architecture, its “write path” and “read path”, making it possible to deliver 300k tweets/sec.
Bio
Raffi Krikorian (@raffi) is the Director of the Applications Services group, the custodians of Twitter's core logic and application infrastructure. His teams manage the business logic, scalable delivery, APIs, and authentication of Twitter's application. His group, from the @twittereng side, helped create the iOS 5 Twitter integration as well as the ""The X Factor"" + Twitter voting mechanism.
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Great presentation. Got to know the architecture of twitter. Thiswas one of my dreams !!
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Thanks for sharing an interesting article.
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Thanks for sharing this Raffi. Would be great if you could do another in-depth session on your load balancing strategy. You've mentioned there's a lot of software load balancing used?
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