Twitter architecture « Scale or die

Twitter architecture

23 02 2008

A bit that caught my attention is the mention of ejabberd. I’ve always been a big fan of erlang for 3 main reasons: a message-passing interface, its hot code upgrades and its making time an explicit and operational part of the language.

Actions

Information

Date : February 23, 2008
Tags: architecture, cache, mysql, rails, rubyonrails, sharding, twitter
Categories : production

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Blurb

If you are involved in a small-size tech company that offers online services you are hopefully faced sooner or later with the growth of your user base beyond the capabilities of your original system. There are many ways to help your service scale, from faster hardware to leaner software and better architecture. I am collecting in this blogs thoughts and data coming from my own experience as an architect involved in growing an online synchronization service, taking care of the software as well as the operations of such a service. My name is Alexis Lê-Quôc

Scale or die