Highly Scalable Architectures (Best/Well Known Systems)

Highly Scalable Architecture(s) at a glance

1. Facebook: An Example Canonical Architecture For Scaling Billions Of Messages as in 2011
2. Youtube Architecture as in 2012
3. The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought For A Cool Billion Dollars as in 2013
4. Amazon Architecture as in 2007
5. Scaling Twitter:

Twitter Scalable Archtecture

Three is a talk Timelines at Scale by Raffi Krikorian @raffi.

The take away:

Outliers, those with huge follower lists, are becoming a common case. Sending a tweet from a user with a lot of followers, that is with a large fanout, can be slow. Twitter tries to