Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) (blog.twitter.com) 43 points by tansionline 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] nemothekid 4y ago ↗ This article is pretty old (2015). As I was reading through it, I got a pretty big surprise that Twitter was still using Storm until I checked the date. [–] hawk_ 4y ago ↗ what do they use now instead of storm? [–] nickphx 4y ago ↗ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc... [–] wnevets 4y ago ↗ this really should be the actual post link. [–] ChrisArchitect 4y ago ↗ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463 [–] nemothekid 4y ago ↗ Wow, ok, I missed this article, but they replaced their homegrown infrastructure (Heron, Scalding, Manhattan) with GCP?!
[–] hawk_ 4y ago ↗ what do they use now instead of storm? [–] nickphx 4y ago ↗ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc... [–] wnevets 4y ago ↗ this really should be the actual post link. [–] ChrisArchitect 4y ago ↗ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463 [–] nemothekid 4y ago ↗ Wow, ok, I missed this article, but they replaced their homegrown infrastructure (Heron, Scalding, Manhattan) with GCP?!
[–] nickphx 4y ago ↗ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc... [–] wnevets 4y ago ↗ this really should be the actual post link. [–] ChrisArchitect 4y ago ↗ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463 [–] nemothekid 4y ago ↗ Wow, ok, I missed this article, but they replaced their homegrown infrastructure (Heron, Scalding, Manhattan) with GCP?!
[–] wnevets 4y ago ↗ this really should be the actual post link. [–] ChrisArchitect 4y ago ↗ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463
[–] nemothekid 4y ago ↗ Wow, ok, I missed this article, but they replaced their homegrown infrastructure (Heron, Scalding, Manhattan) with GCP?!
[–] catchmeifyoucan 4y ago ↗ the links are broken in the article. Not sure what twitter answers was [–] spullara 4y ago ↗ The blog entry was from the Crashlytics team and the product was their mobile analytics service (called Answers by Crashlytics),
[–] spullara 4y ago ↗ The blog entry was from the Crashlytics team and the product was their mobile analytics service (called Answers by Crashlytics),
[–] i_like_apis 4y ago ↗ I wonder how it's 5 Billion? With the population of the Earth being 6.5 ... Billions of sessions seems like it has to be a bug. [–] andrewxdiamond 4y ago ↗ Companies, bots, alts, fake accounts, etc all inflate this number [–] milbertson 4y ago ↗ Population of Earth is 6.5 billion? Did something terrible happen that I'm not aware of? [–] i_like_apis 4y ago ↗ oh 7.7 ... shows what I know. [–] saagarjha 4y ago ↗ People have multiple sessions.
[–] milbertson 4y ago ↗ Population of Earth is 6.5 billion? Did something terrible happen that I'm not aware of? [–] i_like_apis 4y ago ↗ oh 7.7 ... shows what I know.
[–] ChrisArchitect 4y ago ↗ (2015)! come onanything new at twitter since then you think? [–] ChrisArchitect 4y ago ↗ Some discussion at the time:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9079671
[–] 1cvmask 4y ago ↗ Since I could't correct the broken links I submitted the correct version to:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 58.3 ms ] threadanything new at twitter since then you think?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9079671
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463