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		mattculbreth on April 19, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Is Twitter Using A Database In The First Place... Remember Paul Buchheit's advice at Startup School. "Maybe consider not using a database", or some similar statement.

ntoshev on April 19, 2007 [–]

"use in-memory hashmap for small data, Amazon S3 or filesystem for large data. treat disk as sequental device."

mattculbreth on April 19, 2007 | [–]

Yeah there you go.

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