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		cletus on Feb 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week Well you need 100-200 engineers just to try and make Cassandra scale. The rest do the production site with more proven technologies.

whopa on Feb 8, 2011 [–]

Despite the facetious nature of the comment, there's a kernel of truth there: Twitter actually did hire 3 people just to work on Cassandra.

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