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

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what do they use now instead of storm?

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

Wow, ok, I missed this article, but they replaced their homegrown infrastructure (Heron, Scalding, Manhattan) with GCP?!

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

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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.

Population of Earth is 6.5 billion? Did something terrible happen that I'm not aware of?

oh 7.7 ... shows what I know.
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