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supercyberlurker t1_jdvyr2u wrote

Reply to comment by Burnbrook in Twitter source code leaked online, court filings show by Picture-unrelated

That's my take, here. Is Twitter doing anything interesting algorithmically, do they have some secret sauce approach, some special technology that lets Twitter do its thing?

Not really. It's just a pub-sub model at scale.

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ItsANameAtLeast t1_jdw7r1k wrote

Yeah but the fun stuff happens from the "at scale part" at least from an infra perspective.

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supercyberlurker t1_jdwe1hp wrote

You have a point that the configs for their infrastructure would kind of be more interesting than their actual source code.

From a coding perspective it tends to become less interesting. Programming for scale is mostly about making simple composable services you can ramp up or down as needed.

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hexbatch t1_jdwy5cn wrote

Totally a different world from the standard web blog

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