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Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Twitter's Meager Architecture?

TwitterMichael Arrington of TechCrunch demands answers to some tough questions from Twitter. He potentially exposes Twitter's architecture implying that Twitter may be running on a grand total of three MySQL machines.

Do you really have a grand total of three physical database machines that are POWERING ALL OF TWITTER?
For those out of the loop, Twitter has lately been experiencing some serious disruptions in service.

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