Cloning Twitter: Rails + Cassandra = Scalable Sharing

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Prototype Twitter clone uses Rails plus Cassandra; code work shows tradeoffs not hype. Uses the Cassandra gem with a small ORM on top, leverages ActiveModel, handles get/multi_get/insert/remove, and deals with Cassandra Thrift quirks. Key operational details: data is keyed and pre-sorted, secondary indexes are limited, super columns exist, and scalability tuning is through replication factor vs consistency factor choices. Prototype mostly works but isn’t demo-ready.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:35About Chuck
3. 2:102 Months later
4. 5:04CAP Theorem
5. 9:22Queries
6. 12:28Scaling
7. 15:14Ruby + Cassandra
8. 19:25Considerations
9. 23:40Cassandra Schema

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