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OpenAI has published technical documentation on how it scaled Habitat, its online storage system, to reliably serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users. The company achieved a 12× improvement in read speed through implementation of multi-tenancy architecture, global caching strategies, and integration with Azure Cosmos DB.
The write-up is part of a series explaining the infrastructure decisions behind ChatGPT's growth. It addresses challenges of managing data across distributed systems while maintaining reliability and performance as user numbers expand dramatically.
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