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[Archived] A flexible sharding framework for creating eventually-consistent distributed datastores

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[Archived] A flexible sharding framework for creating eventually-consistent distributed datastores

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-04-07 01:44:48 UTC to 2016-10-25 03:20:30 UTC.

01232010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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niftich·Oct 25, 2016
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
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niftich·Jul 13, 2016
Twitter puts out a LOT of software, and open-sources a good portion. I don't know if this is smart in the sense of being overstaffed relative to their revenue, but they do it regardless. Some examples: [1] Fabric, an SDK for mobile apps - https://docs.fabric.io/android/fabric/overview.html [2] Heron, a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine - https://github.com/twitter/heron [3] Finagle, a fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system - https://github.com/twitter/finagle/ [4] FlockDB, a distributed, fault-tolerant graph database - https://github.com/twitter/flockdb [5] Ruby implementation of the ICU (International Components for Unicode - https://github.com/twitter/twitter-cldr-rb [6] Clockwork Raven, Human-Powered Data Analysis with Mechanical Turk - https://github.com/twitter/clockworkraven [7] Gizzard, a flexible
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sharding framework for creating eventually-consistent distributed datastores - https://github.com/twitter/gizzard [8] Twemcache, a Twitter fork of Memcached - https://github.com/twitter/twemcache [9] Twemproxy, a fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis - https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy [10] Iago, a webapp load tester - https://github.com/twitter/iago [11] Ospriet, a bestof/voting app - https://github.com/twitter/ospriet
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