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Re:Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and... by akronim on Monday July 04, 2011 @06:38PM (#2728090)
They may have very little functionality, but do it at scale. e.g. even searching tweets (which doesn't seem to work that great...) is a massive undertaking (not astoundingly little) that they're obviously still working at.
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Re:Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and... by petenixey on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @07:51AM (#2729473)
That's a fair point and I don't trivialise the engineering however I am taken aback by the just how little product they produce. In a similar timeframe Facebook had created vast swathes of product and dealt with far greater user numbers than Twitter.
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