[erlang-questions] Twoorl: an open source Twitter clone

[Per Melin]

2008/6/4 Damien Morton <dmorton@REDACTED>:
> I think Bob hit the nail on the head with this.
>
> No database is needed. Everything can pretty much be achieved with files
> containing fixed-length records.

And indeed, Twitter wrote on their blog Saturday:
"Our new architecture will move our reliance to a simple, elegant
filesystem-based approach, rather than a collection of database
[sic]."