[marwann]

Thanks. Do you know more about the actual flaws of the architecture in the early days?

As I recall, they used to be hosted on Akamai and in colocation centres, but I don't know much about the rest.

[epc]

Initial Twitter service was built using Ruby on Rails, shifting to Scala on the JVM around 2011-2012. See: https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/twitter-drops-ruby-bullshit/ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2011/twitter-se... for a sampling of explanations.

[marwann]

Thanks a bunch!