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Scaling Storage for One Billion ChatGPT Users: The Evolution of OpenAI's Habitat
Original title:Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
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OpenAI provides a technical breakdown of Habitat, an internal storage system that transitioned from a simple Python library into a globally distributed storage platform. Designed to sustain ChatGPT's surge past one billion users, the architecture now handles 22 million requests per second. This first engineering retrospective unpacks the distributed systems decisions required to keep a planetary-scale generative AI responsive under extreme read-write pressure.
Why it's worth reading
A rare engineering look inside OpenAI's production infrastructure, detailing the distributed storage design and trade-offs required to serve a billion users at 22 million requests per second.
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