How Twitter scaled its infrastructure to handle record tweet-per-second days

Raffi Krikorian, Twitter’s Vice President of Platform Engineering, shared in a blog post Friday how the company went from essentially a patchwork infrastructure to one that could handle almost 143,000 tweets per second, a new record set last week. Twitter did this by blending its homegrown and open source technologies. What a marvelous read for the weekend.

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