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No one knows. And even if you work at Twitter, you probably won t let us know the secret.
So, let us all post our theories on how this communication tool database is designed!
It definitely can t follow the standard replication architecture, right? It s got to do some sharding, partitioning, etc, etc.
Let me know what you think!