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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by munchbunny on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:46AM (#18978507)
I'm guessing Twitter runs their own infra for the really heavy throughput stuff. They're big enough that I'd imagine economies of scale kicked in a long time ago.

It sounds like they moved stuff like logging/metrics and query systems onto GCP, which makes sense because as another poster said utilization is probably bursty.

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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by derekalyon on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:50AM (#18979890)
Indeed, these workloads are bursty. They also tend to involve running lots of different processing frameworks over the same data, which makes the value proposition for separating compute and storage stronger.
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