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Re:What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week by gaius on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @04:05AM (#2192424)
Just to put that into perspective, right now, you can buy off the shelf from Tibco an appliance for routing 10 million messages/sec (at an average message size of 50 bytes).

What Twitter does is not hard, and they do it badly.

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Re:What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week by ig1 on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @08:36AM (#2192785)
Having used Tibco and having written high-performance message routing services for investment banks, I'd like to say yes it is hard, and Tibco does it badly.
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