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1. molecu+qx[view] [source] 2018-05-24 23:43:06
>>evanwe+(OP)
2010: "At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him"

https://gizmodo.com/5632095/justin-bieber-has-dedicated-serv...

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2. firebo+WM[view] [source] 2018-05-25 03:41:44
>>molecu+qx
But, but, but...why does Twitter have so many engineers? I could write Twitter in a weekend!

--95% of anti-TWTR posters circa 2010-2016.

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3. snovv_+2W[view] [source] 2018-05-25 06:02:57
>>firebo+WM
Before bring acquired, WhatsApp had what, 30 employees?

How did they do it? I know they used custom BSD servers so that a single box could keep close to 1M TCP connections open. I'm sure with a fixed target to aim for and all scope known upfront a small crack team of devs could do something similar for Twitter.

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4. akhilc+mX[view] [source] 2018-05-25 06:20:37
>>snovv_+2W
The beauty of Erlang/OTP!
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5. evanwe+v61[view] [source] 2018-05-25 08:29:45
>>akhilc+mX
Especially if you completely rewrite Mnesia.
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