Twitter search 3 times faster

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The Twitter Engineering Blog announced that they are now implementing a new Java server called Blender, that will dramatically increase the speed of your searches, while giving you lesser "fail-whales".
Search speed increased from 800 ms to 250 ms, and the server-side CPU load was cut by about half. So that's how there will be fewer "unexpected problems" and fail-whales appearing.

Here's a detailed explanation of Blender.

[Twitter Engineering Blog via Mashable]

Twitter search 3 times faster