Twitter University
Building a culture of learning for @TwitterEng and the world at large through videos, code samples, and more.
Open Source
Twitter engineers use, contribute to and release a lot of open source software. We share what we learn with the greater community via the @TwitterOSS office.
Research
Twitter encourages publication through scientific bodies and industry standards groups. We also have a strong open source culture to share our research widely.
From the Twitter Engineering Blog
- Discovery and Consumption of Analytics Data at Twitter Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Details about how data engineers and scientists discover and consume analytics data at Twitter.
- Bug Bounty, 2 years in Friday, May 27, 2016
Security on a global platform like Twitter is a 24/7 job – we are constantly evolving to respond to new threats and attacks against our users and our systems. In order to stay ahead of the game we staff dedicated account-, network-, enterprise-, corporate-, and application-security teams, as well as an incident detection and response team.
- Open Sourcing Twitter Heron Wednesday, May 25, 2016
We’re open sourcing Heron, our real-time stream processing engine which has been powering all of Twitter’s real-time analytics for over two years.
- Manhattan software deployments: how we deploy Twitter’s large scale distributed database Monday, May 09, 2016
We elaborate on the challenges involved in conducting software deployments for our distributed database and share our approach to solving them.