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10 years back, around 2012-13, Twitter was growing exponentially and serving 150 million users. They were handling around 6000 tweets/second from these users. I would say, this is still manageable. We have databases with high throughput and write speeds that can handle it. But the issue occurs for users reading the tweets. Every user queries the home page of Twitter and they have to be served the ...
Twitter's Tough Architectural Decision!
Feb 20, 2022
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