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Search engines’ carrying capacity
However, it’s also true that a lot of network-based utility only is realized at some level of scale. (As per NFX: “The simplified definition of network effects is that they occur when a company’s product or service becomes more valuable as usage increases.)
Eugene Wei • Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance
The solution: The ingestion service
To meet these unique demands, the Search Infrastructure team implemented the Ingestion Service to gracefully handle Twitter’s traffic trends. The Ingestion Service queues requests from the client service into a single Kafka topic per Elasticsearch cluster. Worker clients then read from this topic and send the req... See more
To meet these unique demands, the Search Infrastructure team implemented the Ingestion Service to gracefully handle Twitter’s traffic trends. The Ingestion Service queues requests from the client service into a single Kafka topic per Elasticsearch cluster. Worker clients then read from this topic and send the req... See more
Stability and scalability for search
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.orgTo hold large volumes of knowledge and knowhow, therefore, we need large networks of people. Yet the relationship between the size of a network and the volume of knowledge and knowhow that it can hold not only makes the accumulation of knowledge and knowhow difficult but also implies that moving or copying the knowledge and knowhow embodied in a la
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