{"id":2628,"date":"2016-06-22T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softwaredaily.wpengine.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2022-06-03T23:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T06:33:57","slug":"scaling-twitter-buoyant-ios-william-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/06\/22\/scaling-twitter-buoyant-ios-william-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling Twitter with Buoyant.io&#8217;s William Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/William-Morgan.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13971\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/06\/22\/scaling-twitter-buoyant-ios-william-morgan\/william-morgan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/William-Morgan.png?fit=218%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"218,258\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"William Morgan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/William-Morgan.png?fit=218%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/William-Morgan.png?fit=218%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13971\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/William-Morgan.png?resize=218%2C258\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"258\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six years ago, Twitter was experiencing outages due to high traffic. Back in 2010 Twitter was built as a monolithic Ruby on Rails application. Twitter migrated to a microservices architecture to fix these problems. During this migration, the engineers at Twitter learned how to build and scale highly distributed microservice architectures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Morgan was an engineer at Twitter during that time, and he is now the CEO of Buoyant.io, a company building open-source microservices infrastructure. Some of the big problems at Twitter were solved at the communication layer, using an RPC library called Finagle. At Buoyant, those lessons are being applied to a project called Linkerd, an RPC proxy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years ago, Twitter was experiencing outages due to high traffic. Back in 2010 Twitter was built as a monolithic Ruby on Rails application. Twitter migrated to a microservices architecture to fix these problems. 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