Twitter Expands Multiyear Partnership with Google Cloud

Social media network Twitter has expanded its Google Cloud partnership to “learn more from data” and “move faster.”

It was in 2018 when Twitter first started to work with Google in order to move Hadoop clusters to the Google Cloud platform as a part of its Partly Cloudy strategy.

The Hadoop compute system is the core of Twitter’s data platform, and the company runs multiple large Hadoop clusters with some considered the biggest in the world.

The migration will enable faster capacity provisioning; increased flexibility; access to a broader ecosystem of tools and services; improvements to security; and enhanced disaster recovery capabilities.

The newly expanded agreement will let Twitter move its offline analytics, data processing and machine learning workloads to Google’s Data Cloud.

“Our initial partnership with Google Cloud has been successful and enabled us to enhance the productivity of our engineering teams,”said Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal.

He added, “Building on this relationship and Google’s technologies will allow us to learn more from our data, move faster and serve more relevant content to the people who use our service every day.”

“Our platform is serverless and we can help organizations, like Twitter, automatically scale up and down,” said Sudhir Hasbe, the Senior Director of Product Management at Google to TechCrunch.

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