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Re:What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week by cletus on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:52AM (#2192129)
Well you need 100-200 engineers just to try and make Cassandra scale. The rest do the production site with more proven technologies.
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Re:What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week by whopa on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:47PM (#2193878)
Despite the facetious nature of the comment, there's a kernel of truth there: Twitter actually did hire 3 people just to work on Cassandra.
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