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Cook was directly responsible for scaling Twitter, and he very much failed in his job. While I agree that Twitter should theoretically have all their scaling p
by pius 18y ago
Cook was directly responsible for scaling Twitter, and he very much failed in his job.
While I agree that Twitter should theoretically have all their scaling problems solved by now, slamming Blaine Cook to that extent seems a bit gratuitous. Cook and his team were among the first to tackle the problem of scaling a Rails application to handle such massive traffic spikes. I don't know that it's fair to discount the level to which their team has solved its architectural problems.
- ojbyrne 18y agoThe thing about scaling is, if your site is popular, you have to keep doing it - because as you make the site serve more pages, there is unmet demand that suddenly appears and has to be met. So unless you know the traffic trends at twitter, you can't really judge how good a job he has done. It could be that they've scaled to 5x, but the demand has grown 10x.
- reeses 18y agoIt's like a CEO. There are a lot of people who can scale a company to $10m, but for each step up, the field of capable candidates gets smaller and smaller.