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Timelines built ahead of time, so reading is cheap. 10 components, 2 request walk-throughs.
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Apps and web API edge Tweet service Fan-out service Social graph Timeline service Timeline cache (Redis) Tweet and user store Search (Earlybird) Event stream
A simplified model based on public talks and engineering write-ups. Real systems are larger and change over time.