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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by nemothekid on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:17PM (#29232144)
This article is pretty old (2015). As I was reading through it, I got a pretty big surprise that Twitter was still using Storm until I checked the date.
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by hawk_ on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:15PM (#29232878)
what do they use now instead of storm?
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by nickphx on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:18PM (#29232904)
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by nemothekid on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:16PM (#29233602)
Wow, ok, I missed this article, but they replaced their homegrown infrastructure (Heron, Scalding, Manhattan) with GCP?!
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by wnevets on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:42PM (#29233172)
this really should be the actual post link.
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by ChrisArchitect on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:01AM (#29242060)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by i_like_apis on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:50PM (#29233267)
I wonder how it's 5 Billion? With the population of the Earth being 6.5 ... Billions of sessions seems like it has to be a bug.
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by andrewxdiamond on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:53PM (#29233304)
Companies, bots, alts, fake accounts, etc all inflate this number
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by milbertson on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:53PM (#29234013)
Population of Earth is 6.5 billion? Did something terrible happen that I'm not aware of?
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by i_like_apis on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:08PM (#29234778)
oh 7.7 ... shows what I know.
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by saagarjha on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @02:18AM (#29237804)
People have multiple sessions.
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by 1cvmask on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:07PM (#29233476)
Since I could't correct the broken links I submitted the correct version to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233463

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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by ChrisArchitect on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:05PM (#29233446)
(2015)! come on

anything new at twitter since then you think?

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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by ChrisArchitect on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:06PM (#29233455)
Some discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9079671

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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by catchmeifyoucan on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:26PM (#29232244)
the links are broken in the article. Not sure what twitter answers was
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Re:Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015) by spullara on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:36PM (#29232368)
The blog entry was from the Crashlytics team and the product was their mobile analytics service (called Answers by Crashlytics),
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