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Not so long ago Twitter outages used to happen every now and then. It's quite interesting to see how now everybody expects it to be running 24/7.
by soci 11y ago
Not so long ago Twitter outages used to happen every now and then.
It's quite interesting to see how now everybody expects it to be running 24/7.
- ricksplat 11y agoAh yes "the fail whale" was a common and much loved feature of day to day twife :-)
- airza 11y agoI mean, one part of me has worked on the backend of uber-high-bandwidth computing services and understands that there is no analogue to performance at that scale, and the other part is like "IT PUTS WORDS THAT PEOPLE POSTED ON A BUNCH OF PAGES, YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THE CORE FUNCTIONALITY IN AN AFTERNOON." So I guess I kinda get it.