Building on Open Source

Kestral photo by mugley When we plan new engineering projects at Twitter, we measure our requirements against the capabilities of open source offerings, and prefer to use open source whenever it makes sense. By this approach, much of Twitter is now built on open source software. In some cases, our requirements—in particular, the scalability requirements of our service—lead us to develop projects f

[rawwell]

"Kestrel is a message queue server we use to asynchronously connect many of the services and functions underlying the Twitter product. For example, when users update, any tweets destined for SMS delivery are queued in a Kestrel; our SMS service then reads tweets from this queue and communicates with

[yuroyoro]

when users update, any tweets destined for SMS delivery are queued in a Kestrel

[hiro_y]

メッセージキューとしてKestrelとCache-Moneyを利用。Scala。

[ono_matope]

KestrelとCache-MoneyのOSSを利用

[hide-K]

message queueとしてKestrel cachingにCache-Money