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title: Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
link: https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-two
source: openai-com
published: 2026-10-23T17:00:00Z
updated: 2026-10-23T17:00:00Z
first_seen: 2026-10-23T18:40:08.262074691Z
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- engineering
summary: 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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Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.