Twitter’s Hadoop System is at the core of its data platform, providing vast storage for analytics of its user actions and allowing its infrastructure to scale whenever needed. Twitter’s large Hadoop clusters number among the world’s largest; its Hadoop file
Earlier this month, nuu:bit, a digital content and revenue acceleration company, announced its successful integration of its own CDN Edge Compute Platform with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB. The service combines CDN Edge Compute with a multi-model, flexible big data store
With a massive catalog of music, a large base of subscribers and myriad features for them to utilize, Spotify’s infrastructure needs are significant. Each day, they handle 100 billion user-generated events of over 300 different event types, which must not
This entry in our video series on distributed computing will summarize how Facebook has scaled their memcache to support a massive, globally distributed read load of a billion reads per second. Rajesh Nishtala, a member of the team that developed
As part of our ongoing series of videos that highlight challenges in distributed computing, we’d like to summarize the data points from Patrick Shuff, an Production Engineer on Facebook’s Traffic Team, on how they scale their load balancing infrastructure to
