Presentations
The GraphQL Developer Experience at Twitter
This talk will give you a peek into the day-to-day reality of working with a GraphQL API at scale, taking you on a journey through the API development process at Twitter. Michelle will share the unique challenges Twitter faces, plus the strategies and tooling they've built to handle...
Past Presentations
Realtime & Personalized Notifications @Twitter
Twitter Notifications Infrastructure enables hundreds of millions of users to stay informed about what’s going on in their Twitter world. Our systems process large volumes of data (aka the Twitter firehose) and deliver realtime and personalized notifications to all kinds of users, ranging from...
In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan
In-memory caching in a distributed setting is widely used these days, and users usually expect it to be "fast and cheap". One important but often overlooked aspect of cache is tail latency– for many real-time applications, tail latency plays an outsized role in determining the overall...