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How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x

I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twitter wrote to build and scale their original consumer product, which is very similar to Mastodon. Our… ....

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Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase

At Red Planet Labs we've been quietly developing a new kind of developer tool for many years. Our tool reduces the cost of building large-scale end-to-end applications by multiple orders of magnitude, and Clojure is a big reason why we've been able to tackle such an ambitious project with a small team. Our codebase consists… ....

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