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This is a guest post by Thierry Schellenbach, CEO GetStream.io and author of the open source Stream-Framework, which enables you to build scalable newsfeeds using Cassandra or Redis.
We first wrote about our newsfeed architecture on High Scalability in October 2013. Since then our open source Stream-Framework grew to be the most used package for building scalable newsfeeds. We’re very grateful to the High Scalability community for all the support.
In this article I want to highlight the current trend in our industry of moving towards externally hosted components. We’re going to compare the hosted solutions for search, newsfeeds and realtime functionality to their open source alternative. This move towards hosted components means you can add scalable components to your app at a fraction of the effort it took just a few years ago.
1.) Search servers
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