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highscalability on Architecture
The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and…
Toy solutions solving Twitter’s “problems” are a favorite scalabi...
highscalability on Scalability
The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion
Rick Reed in an upcoming talk in March titled That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the next ...
How Uber Scales Their Real-time Market Platform
Reportedly Uber has grown an astonishing 38 times bigger in just four years . Now, for what I ...
highscalability on Software Engineering
A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11 Million+ Users on Amazon's AWS
How do you scale a system from one user to more than 11 million users? Joel Williams , Amazon W...
highscalability on TV
Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?
This article is a chapter from my new book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 . The first releas...
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