Twitter has overhauled the back-end infrastructure of its search engine, boosting its speed and capacity to index posts, process queries and deliver results, while making the system more stable and better suited for the addition of new features.
Twitter transferred its search engine to the new platform in recent weeks, after working on the new back-end system for about six months, according to the company.
Twitter’s search engine ran on a system based on MySQL from Summize, a company Twitter acquired in mid-2008, but scaling up the system had become difficult.
The engineering team in charge of the project decided to do an extreme makeover of the search engine using a different technology: the open-source, text search engine Lucene, which is written in Java.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/154714/
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Twitter transferred its search engine to the new platform in recent weeks, after working on the new back-end system for about six months, according to the company.
Twitter’s search engine ran on a system based on MySQL from Summize, a company Twitter acquired in mid-2008, but scaling up the system had become difficult.
The engineering team in charge of the project decided to do an extreme makeover of the search engine using a different technology: the open-source, text search engine Lucene, which is written in Java.
More: http://www.macworld.com/article/154714/
