Infrastructure for a "news-feed"

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I'd like to offer a news-feed like feature for users of our website. When the user logs in, he is shown a list of the latest updates across various areas of the site.

I'm afraid that this is going to be difficult to scale.

What are some networking / database topologies that can support a scalable infrastructure without having lots of copies of the same data? (I'd like to make it so if a piece of data is updated, each user's feed is also updated live).

Thanks for the assistance and advice.

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