Scaling a Microblogging Service - Part II
First Clipped on May. 28, 2008
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It is somewhat surprising that in a service space that is all about live updates from a wide range of devices – many of which are mobile – the scaling challenge both locally and distributed is in data lookup and not distribution. The unique nature of microblogging has the characteristics of both email and instant messaging where immediacy is combined with persistency and loosely coupled groups.
