>> it can take up to 5 minutes for a tweet to flow from Lady Gaga’s fingers to her 31 million followers
Why not break the load up among a farm of servers? 5 minutes to deliver a single message? It's too bad multicast can't be made to work for this use case.
At least analyze to see if there's a pattern of geographic concentration of her followers and optimize for where their datacenters are.
Use peer to peer, let the clients help distribute the messages.
Why not break the load up among a farm of servers? 5 minutes to deliver a single message? It's too bad multicast can't be made to work for this use case.
At least analyze to see if there's a pattern of geographic concentration of her followers and optimize for where their datacenters are.
Use peer to peer, let the clients help distribute the messages.