Designing a Scalable Twitter

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 6:14AM
natis in Twitter, gigaspaces, paritioning, scalabitliy, space based architecture

There were many talks recently about twitter scalability and their specific choice of language such as Scala to address their existing Ruby based scalability. In this post i tried to provide a more methodical approach for handling twitter scalability challenges that is centered around the right choice of architecture patterns rather then the language itself.
The architecture pattern are given in a generic fashion that is not specific to twitter itself and can serve anyone who is looking to build a scalable real time web application in the near future.

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).