OpenAI Publishes Storage Scaling Engineering Practices (Part 2)
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On October 24, 2026, OpenAI published the second part of its storage scaling engineering practices series, focusing on scaling the Habitat storage system. The article describes how OpenAI supports over 1 billion ChatGPT users through reliable multi-tenancy mechanisms, a global cache, and Azure Cosmos DB, claiming these engineering practices deliver a 12x improvement in read speed. This is the second part of the series, centered on three engineering practices: multi-tenant reliability, global caching, and the use of Cosmos DB. The event is only the publication of this article, with no follow-up reports yet.
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- OpenAI NewsRapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
OpenAI explains how it scaled the Habitat storage system, using reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to support over 1 billion ChatGPT users, achieving a 12x improvement in read speed. This is the second part of the series, focusing on engineering practices for multi-tenant reliability, global caching, and Cosmos DB.
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