Posts from all blogs: web scale

At Twitter, we strive to prepare for sustained traffic as well as spikes - some of which we can plan for, some of which comes at unexpected times or in unexpected ways. To help us prepare for these varied types of traffic, we continuously run tests against our infrastructure to ensure it remains a scalable and highly available system.Read more…

Twitter is a global real-time communications platform that processes many billions of events every day. Aggregating these events in real time presents a massive challenge of scale. Classic time-series applications include site traffic, service health, and user engagement monitoring; these are increasingly complemented by a range of analytics products and features such as Tweet activity, Followers, and Twitter Cards that surface aggregated time-series data directly to end users, publishers, and advertisers.Read more…

Twitter has unique and intensive storage requirements. We built a database, called Manhattan, that meets those requirements and allows self-service access for our engineers. Read more…