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Twitter System Architecture
Twitter is actually a host of microservices, including a user service (for listing a user’s timeline), a graph service (for tracking your network), a posting service (for posting new tweets), a profile service (for user profiles), a timeline service (for presenting your timeline), etc.; the architecture to tie all of these together and operate at... See more
Ben Thompson • Back to the Future of Twitter
The commonly agreed on benefits of this style include: increase in agility, developer productivity, resilience, scalability, reliability, maintainability, separation of concerns, and ease of deployment. However, those benefits come with challenges, such as discovering services over the network, security management, communication optimization, data
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