Contextweb interview question

How would you scale access to a system like Twitter

Interview Answers

Anonymous

19 Mar 2011

I was thinking geographically distributed servers.

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Anonymous

11 Jan 2020

Cf

Anonymous

18 Nov 2010

There's probably no real correct answer, though the solutions go from common to esoteric in a pretty normal progression: caching, shared-cache like memcache, optimize usage, prefetch, then get creative. This is more about testing reasoning and how far you'll go to solve a problem.