The Twitter Engineering Blog

Information from Twitter's engineering team about our technology, tools and events.

Results from Engineering forOctober 2013

Netty 4 at Twitter: Reduced GC Overhead

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At Twitter, Netty (@netty_project) is used in core places requiring networking functionality.

For example:Read more…

Summer of Code 2013 Results

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For the second time, we had the opportunity to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and we want to share news on the resulting open source activities. Unlike many GSoC participating organizations that focus on a single ecosystem, we have a variety of projects that span multiple programming languages and communities.

We worked on three projects with three amazing students over the summer.Read more…