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

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

Top engineer says company now has dedicated hardware-design team

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

In an unusual test of Twitter's infrastructure, Japanese anime fans set an all-time record for Tweets per second earlier this month during the showing of a 27-year-old movie on television. The entire event lasted less than ten seconds, but...

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.