[mrcsparker]

I wonder why Twitter doesn't do consulting. They have developed a lot of the big data frameworks that we use today and understand how to scale.

They have the talent and are in a unique position of being Twitter.

[Rapzid]

Just out of curiosity, which ones have they developed?

[niftich]

Some software that Twitter has put out:

[1] Heron, a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine - https://github.com/twitter/heron

[2] Finagle, a fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system - https://github.com/twitter/finagle/

[3] FlockDB, a distributed, fault-tolerant graph database - https://github.com/twitter/flockdb

[4] Gizzard, a flexible sharding framework for creating eventually-consistent distributed datastores - https://github.com/twitter/gizzard

[5] Twemcache, a Twitter fork of Memcached - https://github.com/twitter/twemcache

[6] Twemproxy, a fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis - https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy

[moderation]

[7] Mesos, abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively. - http://mesos.apache.org/

Mesos was invented at UC Berkeley but developed and battle tested at Twitter.

[intoverflow2]

Keep seeing people on HN championing Twitters huge employee number by bringing up this stuff.

In the light of this news was any of this time well spent?

Or is it just engineers hoping that dev-facing work is actually of value to a company when the wolves are circling?

[brooklyndude]

Bootstrap too.

[flukus]

Is there a big enough market for their expertise? There aren't a lot of companies in the world that operate on the same scale.