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28th June 2009 - Link Blog

Twitter, an Evolving Architecture. The most detailed write-up of Twitter’s current architecture I’ve seen, explaining the four layers of cache (all memcached) used by the Twitter API.

Posted 28th June 2009 at 3:09 pm

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