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OpenAI details Habitat scaling with multi-tenancy, global caching, Cosmos DB

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OpenAI published a blog post detailing how it scaled its Habitat storage system to support over 1 billion ChatGPT users. The post highlights the use of reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB, which together delivered 12x faster reads for ChatGPT.

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  1. OpenAI Blog
    Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)

    Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.

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