Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (2015)

by tansionlineon 11/15/2021, 8:00:44 PM with 7 comments
  • by nemothekidon 11/15/2021, 8:17:16 PM

    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.

  • by i_like_apison 11/15/2021, 9:50:49 PM

    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.

  • by 1cvmaskon 11/15/2021, 10:07:56 PM

    Since I could't correct the broken links I submitted the correct version to:

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

  • by ChrisArchitecton 11/15/2021, 10:05:36 PM

    (2015)! come on

    anything new at twitter since then you think?

  • by catchmeifyoucanon 11/15/2021, 8:26:39 PM

    the links are broken in the article. Not sure what twitter answers was

  • by bob229on 11/15/2021, 9:52:51 PM

    5 billion instances of cancer every day