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by Raffi Krikorian on Oct 23, 2012 | NOTICE: The next QCon is in New York June 13-17, 2016. Join us!

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Raffi Krikorian details Twitter’s timeline architecture, its “write path” and “read path”, making it possible to deliver 300k tweets/sec.

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Raffi Krikorian (@raffi) is the Director of the Applications Services group, the custodians of Twitter's core logic and application infrastructure. His teams manage the business logic, scalable delivery, APIs, and authentication of Twitter's application. His group, from the @twittereng side, helped create the iOS 5 Twitter integration as well as the ""The X Factor"" + Twitter voting mechanism.

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twitter arch by sreeni k Posted

Interesting and useful by ayub malik Posted

Absolutely loved this talk by James Zhuo Posted

twitter arch by sreeni k

Great presentation. Got to know the architecture of twitter. Thiswas one of my dreams !!

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Interesting and useful by ayub malik

Thanks for sharing an interesting article.

Ayub
www.ayubmalik.co.uk

Absolutely loved this talk by James Zhuo

Thanks for sharing this Raffi. Would be great if you could do another in-depth session on your load balancing strategy. You've mentioned there's a lot of software load balancing used?