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Glossary: System Design Basics in PHP

Fan-out on write / read

Also written: fan-out on write, fan-out on read

On write, a post is pushed into every follower's feed when it's posted: posting is slow and reading is fast. On read, posts are stored once and gathered when someone opens the feed: posting is cheap and reading is slow.

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