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Twitter System Architecture
designed core architecture that governs the interaction possibilities.
Nick Srnicek • Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
Instead of having a single high-end server (or maybe a few of them), a large number of lower-cost machines are put in place. As opposed to having one server managing its CPU and resources across jobs, jobs are parceled out individually to the different machines to be processed in parallel.
Bill Franks • Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
Been thinking about the architecture behind @RoamResearch, where it's going, and how it fits into a larger toolbox.
Broke it out into the following layers:
∙ Database
∙ Service
∙ Presentation
Easier for me to think about it this way.
My view is the root cause of a lot of these issues is a deep structural misalignment between the needs of their underlying corporate structure of companies like Twitter and the needs of the networks they operate. There are other ways to build these networks. Email is a good example, which runs on an open protocol called SMTP that isn’t owned by any... See more