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Ruby Sunday: Scaling Twitter and Other Lessons from Mr. Cook

Published on Apr 27, 2007
Topics: blaine cook memcached partitioning starling twitter

Everybody was keyed-up, waiting for Blaine Cook of Twitter to talk, and he finally did. It wasn't quite what we expected (well, what were we expecting?), but it was nonetheless educational and really sort of surprising.

Cook took advantage of a long list of Twitter's mistakes and weaknesses to introduce us to Starling, his response to platforms based on Erlang and other technologies -- which he asserts would have been a general nightmare.