Alex Payne, a Twitter developer, talks about its architecture and scalability issue. Twitter is, fundamentally, a messaging system. Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency’s sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practises that are more appropriate to a content management system. Over the last year and a half we’ve tried [...]
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Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott
May 23 2008