Hah fair point, I was trying to write for a more general audience. Part of blogging for me is to improve my written communication skills. Appreciate this!
Something like "scales linearly" or "scales exponentially" probably covers it, for whatever case it was (I forget)
really good article btw. really enjoyed reading it.
might pay to flag when systems you talk about are twitter-internal or are open-source. People love that kind of thing. "wow: twitter uses the gnu C compiler" type thing.
