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29Jun2009
by AuthorStowe Boyd | Posted on DateMonday, June 29, 2009 at 04:40AM

Twitter, an Evolving Architecture

Evan Weaver, lead engineer in the services team at Twitter, recently gave a talk on Twitter's architecture at QCon London 2009. Abel Avram has a good writeup of the presentation, if you are given to deep strategies about performance (see InfoQ: Twitter, an Evolving Architecture).

The upshot is that Twitter has been converting the architecture away from microblogging architecture -- all about creating web pages -- to a microstreaming architecture -- all about efficiently messaging millions of users when millions of users update their status. Another good theoretical reason to not call it microblogging, by the way.

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