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Twitter over IP

Let’s solve Twitter’s scalability problems, shall we?

So, like most people, I don’t know much about the problems there and certainly don’t have any solutions to suggest. But I do know there are a certain class of solutions which aren’t on the table.

If you look at Twitter from a suitably high vantage point you see real-time [...]

Required Viewing

If you’re at all interested in computing technology you can’t help but be amazed at the advances in CPU power over the last few decades, Moore’s Law, blah blah blah. But a few seconds pondering this invariably provokes the question as to how long this party can last.

The commonly accepted wisdom is that CPUs have [...]