From e276822d72c95b555f8146a845bcff862d4b321a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: glusa8 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 02:48:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo in Twitter timeline and search solution (#251) --- solutions/system_design/twitter/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/solutions/system_design/twitter/README.md b/solutions/system_design/twitter/README.md index b475751..374f5dd 100644 --- a/solutions/system_design/twitter/README.md +++ b/solutions/system_design/twitter/README.md @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ We'll introduce some components to complete the design and to address scalabilit The **Fanout Service** is a potential bottleneck. Twitter users with millions of followers could take several minutes to have their tweets go through the fanout process. This could lead to race conditions with @replies to the tweet, which we could mitigate by re-ordering the tweets at serve time. -We could also avoid fanning out tweets from highly-followed users. Instead, we could search to find tweets for high-followed users, merge the search results with the user's home timeline results, then re-order the tweets at serve time. +We could also avoid fanning out tweets from highly-followed users. Instead, we could search to find tweets for highly-followed users, merge the search results with the user's home timeline results, then re-order the tweets at serve time. Additional optimizations include: