On March 31, we hosted the first ever #compute event at our headquarters in San Francisco. Over 150 people attended the event and heard our engineers talk about the present and future of how we build and operate the compute infrastructure as part of the Twitter Cloud Platform. We also gained insights from many in the community on the challenges they face and how they are addressing similar problem

While we’re at the Percona Live MySQL Conference, we’d like to discuss updates on how Twitter uses MySQL, as well as share our plans to open source Mysos, a new MySQL on Apache Mesos framework. MySQL at Twitter Since Twitter was founded, MySQL has been one of our key data storage technologies. We store data in hundreds of schemas and our largest cluster is thousands of nodes serving millions of qu

Programming is difficult — and difficult things generally don’t have a perfect solution. As an example, cross-site scripting (XSS) is still very much unsolved. It’s very easy to think you’re doing the right thing at the right time, but there are two opportunities to fail here: the fix might not be correct, and it might not be applied correctly. Escaping content (while still the most effective way