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"We lost a database server, which is causing lots of errors. Reloading the page may work. It's in the process of recovery." From http://twitter.com/twitter_sta
by aneesh 18y ago
"We lost a database server, which is causing lots of errors. Reloading the page may work. It's in the process of recovery."
From http://twitter.com/twitter_status http://twitter.com/twitter_status
- nuggien 18y agoMaybe they can use their new funding to go hire some engineers who know what they are doing.
- menloparkbum 18y agoI'll get karma-bombed into oblivion for saying this, but I've found it disturbing that a programming culture so obsessed with "testing" has so many problems keeping their servers up and running...
- humanlever 18y agoThat's because Twitter's architecture was designed using the Bob Dole school of infrastructure...it can't stay up.
- ericb 18y agoEven Hacker News seems to have skipped making load testing part of the process. Unit testing won't help you with these types of problems, but load testing is a pain and big companies skip it too sometimes, usually to their detriment.
- neilc 18y agohttp://blog.twitter.com/2008/04/welcome-john-and-steve.html http://blog.twitter.com/2008/04/welcome-john-and-steve.html
- nuggien 18y agoThey're off to a great start...
- aschobel 18y agoThat should be a really fun project, I wish I had those kinds of problems to solve.
- gaika 18y ago"You just can't buy that sort of entertainment" - https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000959.html https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000959.html