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Maybe they can use their new funding to go hire some engineers who know what they are doing.

• menloparkbum 18y ago
  I'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 ago
    That's because Twitter's architecture was designed using the Bob Dole school of infrastructure...it can't stay up.
  • ericb 18y ago
    Even 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 ago
  http://blog.twitter.com/2008/04/welcome-john-and-steve.html http://blog.twitter.com/2008/04/welcome-john-and-steve.html
  • nuggien 18y ago
    They're off to a great start...
  • aschobel 18y ago
    That 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