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Twitter Gets Deeper into Google Cloud

Feb 04, 2021

The social network is moving more of its Hadoop clusters to the cloud, adopting Google’s data analytics and machine learning tools.

Twitter Will Use AWS to Power User Feeds

Dec 15, 2020

AWS global cloud infrastructure will supplement the social media company’s own computing capacity.

Matt Singer, a Twitter senior staff hardware engineer (left), and Navin Shenoy, executive VP and general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel, speaking at an Intel event in San Francisco on April 2, 2019.

How Twitter Shrunk Its Hadoop Clusters and Their Energy Consumption

Apr 02, 2019

Rearchitecting Hadoop clusters to remove a storage bottleneck opened doors for more improvements.

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Twitter Turns to Google Cloud to Better Cope with Scale

May 04, 2018

The social network is migrating a portion of its enormous Hadoop infrastructure to GCP.

Custom Servers Process Tweets in Twitter Data Centers

Jul 13, 2015

Top engineer says company now has dedicated hardware-design team

Report: Twitter Signs for Another 80,000 SF in Atlanta With QTS

Sep 18, 2014

Company now has more than 200,000 square feet in Southern data center hub

Facebook, Google and Others Partner to Make Open Source Easier

Sep 15, 2014

Launch TODO program to address issues tech companies face when using open source

Twitter’s Infrastructure Team Matures, Making the Fail Whale a Thing of the Past

Jun 25, 2014

Infrastructure chief says the team can now handle real-time traffic at global scale with finesse

All-Star Oscar Selfie Crashes Twitter

Mar 03, 2014

Academy Awards host Ellen Degeneres knocked Twitter offline briefly Sunday night with an all-star "selfie" photo featuring many...

Twitter's New Infrastructure Weathers Massive TweetStorm

Aug 19, 2013

In an unusual test of Twitter's infrastructure, Japanese anime fans set an all-time record for Tweets per second earlier this...

Twitter Plans Major Data Center Expansion

May 10, 2013

Twitter has begun a major expansion of its data center infrastructure, adding space on both coasts in anticipation of huge growth for the microblogging service. That includes a large long-term deal for data center space in Sacramento.

Twitter Adding More Data Center Space (Again)

Sep 19, 2011

Twitter continues to grow, and its infrastructure is growing along with it. The popular microblogging service recently surpassed 100 million active users, and is expanding its data center network to keep pace.

Twitter's Expansion Brings Capacity, Controversy

Apr 07, 2011

Back in December we reported that Twitter had leased data center space in Sacramento, a surprise move that reflected a shift from its previously announced plans to operate a new facility in Salt Lake City. So what happened to the Salt Lake City...

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