Twitter’s Migration to Google Cloud – An Architectural Insight
This is my second write-up on the infrastructure @Twitter. In the first, I delved into the database technologies leveraged by the social platform to store petabytes of data generated every single day. Twitter recently moved a part of their workload to the Google Cloud to…
What Database Does Twitter Use? – A Deep Dive
This write-up is an insight into the persistence layer of Twitter. It covers topics such as what database does it use? Is it SQL, NoSQL, or a polyglot persistent system? How does it store hundreds of millions of tweets sent every single day? and more….
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