Improving Running Components at Twitter

Summary
In this talk from QCon London 2009 Evan Weaver shows how Twitter keeps up with growth, by focusing on three performance milestones: caching strategy, the message queue and the cache client.

Bio
Evan Weaver is the services team lead at Twitter, and a well-known specialist in Ruby on Rails performance. Formerly he worked at CNET Networks and SAP AG. His blog is at http://blog.evanweaver.com/, and he owns a very small consultancy at http://cloudbur.st/.

About the conference
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