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NoSQL at Twitter (infoq)

by xsltuser2010 on 1/21/11, 5:59 PM with 1 comments

• by siculars on 1/21/11, 8:52 PM

  Great talk on Twitter architecture as of Nov. 2010 by @rk. A lot of innovative high scale open source code and ideas are coming out of Twitter that will have (and already have had) a trickle down effect on the greater tech community dealing with these issues.

  I particularly appreciated the dissection of snowflake, their distributed unique id generator, their realtime use of cassandra for distributed counters and their upstream patches for redis.